Six ways to encourage young writers
Follow these suggestions to encourage your child's budding writing skills.
Articles about:Third grade and writing
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
How you can help at home: Have your child use descriptive words to write about an object.
Pantry Poetry: Let Food Be Your Muse
Let food inspire your child to practice descriptive writing.
Handwriting Cues
How you can help at home: Reinforce proper letter formation by writing lists and notes together with your second-grader.
Word up
A bestselling author offers five techniques to blast through resistance and teach kids to write.
Create a comic book
How you can help at home: Your child will learn to create his own family comic book. This activity builds writing and computer skills.
Word family flip book
How you can help at home: Have your child create this fun flip book to practice reading.
Create a family memory book
With the help of a computer, your child can practice language arts skills as she preserves family memories.
My Child Started Reversing Letters
My daughter has been writing since before she started school and was good at it. I was a stay-at-home mom and worked with her so that when she started school she would have no problems.
Now that she has started school and I am a...
Prefix practice mis-, non-, ex-, co-, anti-
In this language arts worksheet, your child practices adding the prefixes mis-, non-, ex-, co-, and anti- to root words to create new words.
