Preparing Your Child to Write - All the Write Moves

The write start - Jennifer Hallissy 2010

Preparing Your Child to Write
All the Write Moves

ARE YOU AS excited as I am to set up your kids for writing success? If you are reading this book, the answer is probably yes. Well, I have good news; since you’re looking for information, you’re already ahead of the game. Preparing children to write isn’t very hard at all, but it does require a little bit of know-how. Luckily, this chapter can be your everything-you-ever-needed-to-know guide to helping your child progress from Scribbler to Speller, and beyond.

So if it’s supposed to be simple, what’s there to know? Basically, it’s a matter of pointing our kids in the right direction. When it comes to teaching the skills that support writing, my motto is this: teach them right, right from the start. Learning the best strategies, right from the get-go, prevents children from getting into bad habits or expending more effort than necessary on writing tasks (and, as a result, thinking that writing is hard or that they don’t like it). Steering them onto the right path, however, makes learning to write so natural that children will think they were born to write.