The document provides writing prompts for students over 5 days that focus on spiders. The prompts encourage students to write short paragraphs comparing spiders to other animals or objects, describing what spiders can do, and discussing how spiders are useful. The prompts are designed to have students write about spiders in different contexts to demonstrate various writing skills.

1. Writing
Day #1:Why Day #2:
Prompts -
do you think Compare how
Students will
some people a spider makes
write 4 to 6
are afraid of a web and how
sentences in
spiders? What a person sews
response to
would you tell on a missing
each writing
them? button.
prompt
Day #3: Do Day #4: Write Day #5: Silk
you think car a letter to a make things
manufacturers friend telling strong. Write
would like to him or her about things
make bumpers about some of you use that
that never get the things would be
a dent? Why spider silk can better if they
or why not? do. were stronger.

2. Day #2:
Combining Nouns.
Day #1: 1. Spiders crawl.
Read each
1. The spider has Lizards crawl.
sentence.
a web. The spider 2. Spiders lay eggs.
Combine the
has a trap. Chicken lay eggs.
sentences using the
2. I saw a spider. 3. Farmers like
proper connectors
I saw a fly. spiders. Scientists
and punctuation.
like spiders.
Day #3: Day #4:
Day #5:
1. The bug 1. Flies were
1. Spiders help crops.
crawled. The ant caught. Birds
Spiders help flowers.
crawled. were caught.
2. The babies are
2. Spiders have 2. Len found a
gone. The eggs are
eight legs. Spiders spider. Len found
gone.
have eight eyes. a firefly.
3. The spiders grew.
3. The ant got out. 3. The bug died.
The web grew.
The fly got out. The ant died.