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 Teaching
writing to high school students can be difficult… teaching
writing to young children can sometimes seem even more difficult.
Luckily, teaching writing to youngsters does not have to be so difficult.
In fact, teaching writing to young kids can be quite fun.
Children already love to draw on anything and everything they can
– it is not a wise move to leave a young child in a room with
a permanent marker and anything that you value! But because children
love to draw, it is just one step further to convince your children
to love to draw letters and words. Here are some ideas for teaching
writing:
• Teaching writing does not have to be mundane – teaching
writing does not simply have to be copying letters from a blackboard
onto a piece of paper with a pencil. In fact, kids will learn better
and faster if you come up with innovative and fun ways of teaching
writing.
o You can take your children outside to write with sidewalk chalk
on your driveway.
o Cover your kitchen table with foil and then have your child put
a big glob of shaving cream in the middle and spread it out. Your
children can practice writing in the shaving cream!
o Let your children paint letters onto your walls with water.
• Make alphabet cards to encourage your children to recognize
letters. Your children can draw each letter of the alphabet on individual
cards. Next, have your children go through a magazine or a paper
and help them find pictures that start with certain letters and
glue those pictures to the respective alphabet card
• Hang up alphabet murals in your children’s rooms.
• Feed them alphabet soup!
• Read stories to them as often as you can.
• Tell your children to write a story on paper – even
if they just scribble or write nonsense, it is OK. At least they
are “writing.” Then have them read the stories back
to you.
• Make a book with your children and have them feel it with
writing and pictures.
• Ask your children to draw a picture and make up a story
about it. Record the story just as they children recited it and
then read it back to them. They will start to see the connection
between written and spoken words.
There are many ways that teaching writing can be fun, for both
you and the children that you are teaching. Teachers can, of course,
use these methods for teaching writing, but parents can, as well.
Writing is an important skill and tool that children will use and
perfect way into their adulthood. Start teaching writing now –
it is not too early or too late for your children to learn the basics
of writing.
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