Writing Onomatopoeia Stories

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While we love David Shannon books at our house, one of our favorites would have to be Duck on a Bike.  There are many reasons I like Duck on a Bike {from a reading teacher perspective} and I’ve written activities and created a few printables to go with the farm theme for my preschoolers and reading students.

This time, we explored the all the onomatopoeias within the text that ultimately led to writing our own onomatopoeia “stories”.

First, we defined an onomatopoeia as “a word that imitates {or copies} a sound.”  We read several books that included some great onomatopoeias.  Duck on a Bike, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Mr. Brown Can Moo, and What Do You Say? are some of the books we read aloud together.

Each time we came across at onomatopoeia, we jotted it down on our dry erase board.  Once we had collected our list, we began brainstorming stories we could created with onomatopopeias.

{I kept it simple by only expecting my son, at 1st grade, to use 6 words with drawings for his story, but you could extend or downsize the activity, depending on the age of your child.}  We had fun creating silly stories and talking about the pictures that could go with each onomatopoeia.

Then, I folded a large piece of construction paper so that there were three spaces on top and three on the bottom.  He began writing and drawing his onomatopoeia story with six onomatopoeias.

This is a great activity to do if your child likes to draw and color because the story is truly found within the pictures.

Here is his finished product.  He was so proud of it.

Stay tuned because we just MIGHT be posting another writing activity with Duck on a Bike before April is over.

~Becky