Mary Emma’s Writing Activities for Young Writers
One of my favorite activities involves in encouraging young writers. I enjoy visiting schools and working with teachers, either coordinating something they’re teaching or planning my own workshop. It’s rewarding to see youngsters become excited about writing stories, poetry, plays, essays and often illustrating them.
Youngsters work at various speeds and with differing degrees of inspiration. When you can get a youngster, who professes to hate writing, turned around so he/she enjoys it, that’s a height of joy for a teacher. Because I’m also a teacher (doing solely substitute teaching now), I can keep up with what teachers are teaching about writing and what’s expected of the students.
In future posts, I shall be giving some writing suggestions and prompts for young writers and hope I inspire them.
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5 opinions for Mary Emma’s Writing Activities for Young Writers
tanyetta
Aug 31, 2008 at 11:15 pm
At what age do you think it’s best to start introducing writing to children?
I had a comment that my son is too young to be writing his name because he’s learning to write the letters incorrectly and I should just wait until he gets to school for the teachers to teach him correctly.
Is this true? Do you agree?
Cindi
Sep 1, 2008 at 1:28 am
This sounds like a wonderful idea! I have two sons and the youngest one writes wonderful papers. His expressions seem to flow so easily. Thanks, Cindi
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