For our final day of writing support I would like to share further advice and strategies to support you when supporting your child. Writing is an important form of communication and one which plays an important part in your child’s life.
Today’s final tips will be simple ways you can further encourage writing at home using everyday routines.
- Send a message
As parents you can leave messages for your child around the house, on their pillow, in their lunchbox or on a chalkboard. Encourage your child to write a response. The tooth fairy could even leave a message!! That happened in my house and caused great excitement leading to my child writing a response which I have kept for years!
- Keep a Year in Review book:
A lovely idea is to keep a diary of things you have done as a family throughout the year. Everyone can add to this and it will encourage your child to write in it too. Pictures and photographs could also be added to make it all come to life.
- Make a menu
Have your child create a menu/recipe for your family dinner. They could use the ingredients to help with spelling and vocabulary.
- Copy
Think of your child’s favourite rhyme or song and get them to copy some of the lyrics.
- Saying Thank You
Get your child to write thank you notes to friends and relatives.
On that note thank you for sharing in our blog posts and literacy supports and please do not hesitate to contact me for further ideas, supports or links when supporting your child with aspects of their literacy and language skills.
Have a great day everyone,
Mrs Docherty
We have downloaded an app called “writing wizard” Kian is loving using this as it’s time on the iPad and learning how to write letters, words numbers and shapes. It’s great as it’s shows the children how each letter is formed and takes them step by step through how to write each letter etc. He seems to find this great fun and has been showing us on paper what he’s been practicing on the app. 👍🏻😁
Good morning,
Thank you so much. That sounds amazing. well done Kian. I have been super impressed by your work in writing and thank you for using the ideas posted on our Blog too. I am going off now to have a go at your recommendation “Writing Wizard.” I think I will have to share that with everyone too.
Have a great day,
Mrs Docherty