How to Teach Writing in a Child-Directed Way

Twelve ideas to teach writing in a child-directed way. Twelve ideas that address your real child’s interests.

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teaching vocabulary

Just by speaking, we learn vocabulary. By reading, we naturally learn it all the more. Grandma overheard her granddaughter refer to her coccyx getting hurt on the sled hill (not conventional nine  year old terminology, but she has a medical dad). We speak, they learn. I don’t teach vocabulary. But I am a word geek.…

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food for creative thought: the unique contribution

What is my unique contribution to the world? I relistened to a podcast by Elizabeth Gilbert interviewing Brene Brown. You are likely familiar with the author Elizabeth Gilbert. She wrote Eat, Pray, Love…and a handful of other titles. Recently, Gilbert wrote Big Magic — the next title on my reading list. It’s a book about creativity,…

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