Improving Writing Skills in Children
Skills efface in children as they develop new talents. The relation between attitude and aptitude is vital to enhance their personality. Teachers and care givers from time to time bring out the best in children. Learning is a continual phase and the initiative from the children’s side must always be natural. Improvement in reading and writing is required at all levels. For a
child to get interested in writing, a proper environment is necessary. It is also important to let the child have a proper division of play and studies. For writing, a calm mind is essential. Switch off gadgets or other distractions.
For a child to improve writing skills, the reading habit is important. Kids love story books and other gentle means of conversation helps them to know about words. The idea is to hone their creativity. Children have to express themselves in English and the teacher corrects them accordingly. Writing also means having a good handwriting. This is a means of clearly communicating as shabby hand writing creates difficulty. If a child shows reluctance in reading or writing, then make it interesting to do a picture say a ball or a picnic atmosphere and start with words. Slowly forming sentences will work.
Reading helps the child to understand the creative flow. While doing a puppet show or some stage act, it is important to let the child know about the importance of sequence. Coherent thinking while writing is the only objective. At the same time, encouragement and appreciation works wonders. Let the child try out a writing skill and correct later. The red pen mark may be avoided as the children get inhibited by the same. Moreover we could appreciate them with codes like smileys or stars where one can grade as per their excellence in work. This surely works well and is an important form of evaluation.
Written communication is very much essential in today world. Appreciate good work and insist on short works like ‘Myself’ or ‘My day out’ in the beginning. The progress if slow is better and natural talent also comes out in the long run. If there are project works in school, let the child know orally about the way to write about the same. Information is easy these days via media or books. Help the child to coherently put an essay and help them with new words. Gifts like books are surely helpful to increase a child’s word power. Simple lines on travelogue or a special day certainly helps them to express their talents.
The habit of reading helps the child to gain confidence and understand a subject. Apart from academics, subscribing to children magazines is a good investment. Hereby the children understand the right way to express via writing. As they progress in grades, the writing skills require more finesse which can happen by broadening their knowledge. Academic exams require sequential thinking-writing which helps them attain marks. Point form projects also yield clarity of a subject understanding. Essay writing contests also help the child to participate and learn other ways or skills in writing effectively.
References: preschool curriculum