Experimental Writing

Parent Tips

• Read to your child and encourage him or her to join in.
• Talk about books before you read them and encourage your child to predict what might happen.
• Take your child to the library to select own books.
• Write messages to your child and encourage them to write replies. Talk about letters, words, and spaces as you write.
• Use a family message board to trade messages.
• Try written conversations with your child.
• Support your child’s spelling attempts.
• Provide a special place for your child to write.
• Encourage your child to make cards for others.
• Talk about the purposes for your writing: lists, messages, letters, etc.
• Make scrapbooks and encourage your child to add captions to the pictures.
• Draw attention to print forms on T.V., in telephone books, at stores, and on signs.
• Play games with words using plastic or magnetic letters.