Fun invitations to pick up a pencil and start drawing are a great way to encourage beginner writers. Pose a simple question and see how the children respond. Read more »
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I’m always on the look out for opportunities I can offer the children to get them interested in writing. Sitting rather reluctant writers down with a blank piece of paper and a pencil and saying ‘let’s write a story’ doesn’t work for us – but adding writing in to play or setting up a invitation which sparks their interest does. Create your own opening crawl This idea for creating a story on a roll popped into my head when I was thinking about a different way for us to use our easel. Adding a long roll of paper to the easel made me think of the opening credits to Star Wars, when the text crawls up the screen and I thought we could use it all summer long to create a story. How do you go about promoting literacy outside? After our garden audit we’re gearing up to make more use of our outdoor space now the summer is on the way. Here are five quick and easy ideas we’re using to take our literacy outside. 1. Go inside out: I bet you have plenty of writing materials . . . → Read More: Literacy outside Welcome to the Carnival of Letter Play! This week’s Play Academy link-up is all about Letter Play. Please share an idea for any kind of letter play – a new post or one from your archive. Indoors, outdoors, games, songs, mark making, writing, literacy – what letter play do you enjoy? . . . → Read More: Join the Carnival of Letter Play Gardening with children offers so many opportunities to learn. We love growing our own fruit and vegetables, even though our garden is small, so the children get to see where their food comes from and how seeds transform into something tasty to eat. The sunflowers we’re growing as part of the Sunflower Challenge charity competition are doing . . . → Read More: Make a garden journal A very simple but effective way to encourage your children’s writing when you’re going out shopping is to have the children write the list. This shows them that writing has a purpose and involves them in serious, grown-up business. Don’t worry too much about spellings and neatness, the idea is to promote writing as something . . . → Read More: Literacy ideas: shopping lists  |
   
                    
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