"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.
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