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Teaching Writing to kids includes a huge range of writing skills -

        • Composition and Handwriting Skills
        • Spelling Skills
        • Grammar Skills


This is broken down into writing across subject areas - sentences, paragraphs, stories, reports, book reviews, essays, literary response essays and writing to a specific audience. It also includes - phonics, spelling rules, syllabification, dictionary skills, grammar concepts and more.



How do we go about teaching writing skills to our children without losing the love of writing?

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Writing can and should be enjoyable, but perhaps we hurry the mechanics too soon and it turns some children off the whole process. On the other hand, there are just some things we need to learn. How you go about teaching writing in your home is completely your decision as parents and it may work differently with different children.

Writing through narration; Using Modeling as a base - through literature; Using Creative Writing Prompts; Following a Writing Curriculum; Using an online Writing course (Time4Learning); Creating your own Writiing curriculum;

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