"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
William Wordsworth
- READ, READ, READ great books aloud
 - Be a great audience-show interest in what your child writes.
 - Build on strengths-find something specific to celebrate in your child's writing
 - Provide a place and tools for writing
 - Look for easy, low-pressure opportunities for writing (e-mails, postcards, thank notes, etc.)
 - Give your child a diary, book, notebook, magazine subscription.
 - Play story-telling and word games(Scrabble, Boggle, Scattergories)
 - Write something personal and share it with your child. Let them see you writing.
 - ****Make a scrapbook of family stories and events.