One Day, I woke up and looked outside. \u00a0It was a rainy day in Oregon. \u00a0My family, my friend, and his family went on a road trip to Oregon. \u00a0I was in a tent in a RV park. \u00a0My family slept in one tent and my friend and his family stayed in another tent.<\/p>\n
I was going to go to the beach with my friend and our families. \u00a0 I went with my next-door-neighbor friend, Brandon. \u00a0I felt happy and excited about going to the beach. \u00a0Before we went, we all had breakfast and brushed our teeth. When we were finally ready, we walked up the sandy path from the RV park to the beach.<\/p>\n
It was a rainy day at the beach and the sky was gray with lots of clouds. \u00a0I could feel the wet sand with my bare feet. \u00a0We set up our folding chairs. \u00a0We also set up a soft quilt that was pretty big and colorful.<\/p>\n
We were planning to each lunch at the beach. \u00a0I was really excited to eat at the beach, so I took snacks to eat. \u00a0Suddenly, it started to rain so we had to go back to the tent. \u00a0It rained lightly for several minutes. I felt disappointed because we would not be able to play on the beach. \u00a0We used my friend\u2019s portable oven to make spaghetti and meatballs. \u00a0We all ate together.<\/p>\n
After lunch, we walked on a sandy trail up a hill then down onto the beach. \u00a0We all walked as a group. \u00a0It stopped raining, but the sand felt wet when I stepped on it. \u00a0We heard the waves crashing on the shore. \u00a0We built sandcastles and destroyed them. We played with the bright-colored smooth beach balls. \u00a0We played pass, when you pass the ball to each other. \u00a0Finally we played in the cold, large, rough waves.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, I felt tired and I was happy to say that I had a good day. \u00a0I learned that when it rains, you may have to change your plans but you can still have fun.<\/p>\n
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This personal narrative was created for the purpose of enhancing the patient\u2019s narrative and written language skills over the course of eight treatment sessions. \u00a0He was introduced to narrative structure during previous sessions which focused on improving his reading comprehension skills. \u00a0Visual supports, such as the story grammar marker, were used to help him link the information he read to the role it served in the story (e.g. setting, plot, consequence, resolution).<\/p>\n
As his understanding of narrative structure increased, his ability to recall information within a passage also improved. \u00a0As he continued to demonstrate difficulty including and organizing these essential components in his own writing, he began training for composition of a personal narrative. \u00a0He completed the writing process, beginning with brainstorming (i.e. jotting down ideas, single words, even pictures to enhance creativity). \u00a0After he decided on his topic, he created a story map to help him organize his ideas and sequence events in a logical order.<\/p>\n
Next, he completed a rough draft of his story. \u00a0While it accurately described actions within the story, it included few details, lacked transitions between events, and did not follow a logical sequence. \u00a0He wrote each sentence from his draft on a separate note card. \u00a0One session, he engaged in a creative writing activity that encouraged him to add details related to his five senses. The patient then added appropriate details to each of the story sentence cards. \u00a0After he inserted some \u201csparkle\u201d into his sentences, he added some variety to his sentence structure. \u00a0He arranged and numbered each of his story cards to enhance the \u201cflow,\u201d or sequence of story events. \u00a0With these revisions, he completed a second draft of his story and created a title. \u00a0Finally, our young author completed the editing stage of the writing process, which focused on punctuation and spelling.<\/p>\n
Enhance your child\u2019s written language skills this summer by encouraging reflective writing or journaling. \u00a0You may ask your child to journal each day about his or her experiences or write a story about a trip or vacation. \u00a0 For more ideas and additional resources, follow the links listed below.<\/p>\n
The Writing Process: <\/span>http:\/\/www.ttms.org\/PDFs\/04%20Writing%20Process%20v001%20(Full).pdf<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>Teaching Writing: <\/span>http:\/\/www.time4learning.com\/teaching-writing.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n Trip to Oregon:\u00a0A story written by a ten-year-old patient of ESHC One Day, I woke up and looked outside. \u00a0It was a rainy day in Oregon. \u00a0My family, my friend, and his family went on a road trip to Oregon. \u00a0I was in a tent in a RV park. \u00a0My family slept in one tent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[260,173,48,871,872,873],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}