Writing Strategies to Use at Home with Your Student
1. Encourage your child to carry a small notebook with them, paying attention to details and thinking, “I could write a true story about this.”
2. Think of a strong feeling, and then list “small moment” stories pertaining to that feeling. Choose one to write about.
3. Think of the stories that your family tells and retells. Write about one of those.
4. Keep an ongoing list of story ideas in your writer’s notebook.
5. Think of a subject, or a person, place, or thing that matters to you, then list small moments you remember. Choose one to sketch and then write the accompanying story.
6. Think of first times, last times, or important times in your life. Write about one of those moments.
7. Use a book and look at the moments and relationships and see what you connect to and may want to examine in your own life.
8. Take small moments and break them into beginning, middle and end.
9. Diagram places of memory and label the pictures with individual words.
10. Encourage your child to show, don’t tell!
Narrative Writing
Informational Writing
Opinion Writing
1. Encourage your child to carry a small notebook with them, paying attention to details and thinking, “I could write a true story about this.”
2. Think of a strong feeling, and then list “small moment” stories pertaining to that feeling. Choose one to write about.
3. Think of the stories that your family tells and retells. Write about one of those.
4. Keep an ongoing list of story ideas in your writer’s notebook.
5. Think of a subject, or a person, place, or thing that matters to you, then list small moments you remember. Choose one to sketch and then write the accompanying story.
6. Think of first times, last times, or important times in your life. Write about one of those moments.
7. Use a book and look at the moments and relationships and see what you connect to and may want to examine in your own life.
8. Take small moments and break them into beginning, middle and end.
9. Diagram places of memory and label the pictures with individual words.
10. Encourage your child to show, don’t tell!
Narrative Writing
Informational Writing
Opinion Writing