In order to get an idea of Josh's writing skills, I asked him to write a few paragraphs about "A Great Day." Next, I went over examples of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs with lots of input from Josh. Then I showed him an example of an autobiographical poem and we labeled the parts of speech. He used a planning sheet to write a poem about himself and then he typed it. I gave him a choice of five books and he chose one which we began.