Learning Focus
February 2021 | Focus: Writing
Writing: The Essential Skill
Writing is more than an essential job skill, it is an essential life skill. The connection between writing skills and success both in and outside of school is deeply rooted in educational research. Writing helps with the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills. Writing can help children express their thinking, find their voice in the world, and work through real-life problems. By requiring young authors to consider audience and purpose, writing helps children connect to the world around them, both on and off the page. This month's Learning Focus looks to provide tips on how to encourage and support writing at home.
How Parents Can Help with Writing at Home
Just like reading at home helps to strengthen young reader’s skills, writing at home helps to strengthen young writer’s skills. In the article, How Parents Can Help with Writing at Home, our friends at Teach Writing have some easy to implement, screen-free writing activities that will help your children write at home.
Easy Tips for Reading & Writing at Home
There are so many opportunities for children to engage in reading and writing when they are out of the classroom! In order to support the development of these skills, set up spaces in your home where your child can practice and make literacy a part of their daily life. In order to support literacy skills, like writing, follow these Easy Tips for Reading & Writing at Home from the Children's Literacy Initiative.
How Journaling Benefits Your Child
Journal writing can help your children process feelings, build writing skills, and communicate their ideas. In the article, How Journaling Benefits Your Child, the experts at Scholastic layout three great benefits of journaling, including tips for your child's further development. This is a must read for any family that has a struggling writer at home.
Why is Writing Important?
- Writing makes our thinking and learning visible and permanent.
- Writing equips us with communication and thinking skills.
- Writing is critical to becoming a good reader.
- Writing preserves our ideas and memories.
- Writing allows us to understand our lives.
- Writing expresses who we are as people.
- Writing allows us to entertain others.
- Writing is an essential job skill.
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