Emma's Dog Story

One of the greatest joys of the past few years has been watching Emma learn to read and write. I am especially tickled with her ability to write a coherent paragraph...sadly I have many middle school students who are not able to do this.

Emma brought the story below home with her today. Though her spelling is still mostly phonetic, I love that she had a cohesive story from beginning to end:



Emma's Version:

I Fed MY Dog My dog is
Bllak I wet on A wokk his
KOLR is red
A hoz is on
he is FRte
He Gos OVR An
tak a dekk WOOO Hes' hot
the End

Translated By Mommy Version:
I feed my dog. My dog is black. I went on a walk. His collar is red. A hose is on. He is thirsty. He goes over and takes a drink. Whew! He's hot. The End

(And yes, Dear Readers, our dog often drinks water from the neighbors' sprinkler systems when we take him on walks.) :)