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Tips for Parents about Writing 9. Provide different kinds of paper,
Workshop Mindy Hoffar, All Write!!! pencils, etc. for your child to write with
2008 at home. Have a home writing center.
10. Find reasons for your child to write –
1. When your child shows you his or her help with the grocery list, write thank
writing, focus on what your child is you notes.
doing well. Writing is very personal 11. Read with your child.
and a child can be easily crushed.
Celebrate with your child what is good
about the writing. Parent Tips for nurturing your growing
2. Help to encourage the enthusiasm readers: (Reading is Fundamental)
your child has for writing. Your child’s (http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=6)
energy for writing should increase after
talking with you, not decrease. 1. Read with your children at least
3. Don’t panic over misspelled words. A once every day.
child’s speaking vocabulary is greater
than written vocabulary. If a child only 2. Make sure they have plenty to
used words he/she knows how to spell,
read. Take them to the library
the writing would be very dull and regularly, and keep books and other
lifeless. The teacher works on spelling
reading materials in their reach.
skills during the year. Watch to see if
your child’s spelling improves as the
year progresses. (Remember, even
3. Notice what interests your child,
then help find books about those
published work sometimes has spelling
things.
errors and that work has gone through
much editing.)
4. Don’t stress if your child doesn’t use 4. Respect your child's choices.
punctuation perfectly. Again, the There's nothing wrong with series
teacher works on this during the year. fiction if that's what keeps a young
Your child will progress in this area as reader turning the pages.
well.
5. The goal of writing workshop is to 5. Praise your children's efforts and
teach the writer, not the writing. “If newly acquired skills.
the piece of writing gets better but the
writer has learned nothing that will 6. Help your child build a personal
help him or her another day on library. Children's books, new or used,
another piece, then the time was make great gifts and appropriate
wasted.” –Carl Anderson- rewards for reading. Designate a
6. Show your child how you use writing in bookcase, shelf or box where your
your life – making lists, writing letters, children can keep their books.
thank you notes, emails, notes to
family members, etc. 7. Check up on your children's
7. Share stories from your life with your progress. Listen to them read aloud,
child. Your life stories are more read what they write and ask teachers
interesting to your child than made up how they're doing in school.
TV shows. . . REALLY!!!
8. When your child wants to tell you 8. Go places and do things with your
about an interesting thing that children to build their background
happened during the day, enjoy knowledge and vocabulary, and to give
listening and encourage him or her to them a basis for understanding what
jot the event down. It might make a they read.
good piece of writing later.
9. Tell stories. It's a fun way to teach
values, pass on family history and
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build your children's listening and
thinking skills.