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Training a Writer
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Easy Homeschooling
Excerpt from Easy Homeschooling Companion.
1) Read aloud to your young child (and all your children).
2) Listen to, and write down, the stories he tells.
If you begin with these two steps, your child will have no lack of creativity...
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Excerpt from Easy Homeschooling Companion.
1) Read aloud to your young child (and all your children).
2) Listen to, and write down, the stories he tells.
If you begin with these two steps, your child will have no lack of creativity in
his writing.
Even after he is able to write, you child will compose more detailed
works if you do the actual writing, at least part of the time.
When you child
begins writing, be sure all work is completed, and completed neatly.
If you accept
less, your children will continue to do less than they are capable of, and may fail
to learn important habits, which carry over into other areas, such as dress and
cleanliness.
Once your child is writing profusely, the next step is cutting.
This step should be
saved for later, at about eleven years old or older (depending of course on the
individual child and his writing experience).
Eliminate:
1) Phrases, sentences or sections not related to the main theme of the writing.
2) Groups of words that can be exp
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