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Literacy Consultant Dr. Miriam Marecek recommends you:
- Begin writing with a child's first name
- Grow into learning the last name and initials
- Remember, “mock writing” precedes real writing
- Write together, taking turns
- When writing interactively, let children write what they know
- Add what children might not know
- Encourage children to write every day
- Start a home journal
- Write back in journals of new writers
- Remember, writing improves with practice
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Like Katie Lyslo, a Wellesley College Graduate:
- Go to book signings
- Keep writing every day
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Like Luisa Bonillas and her daughter:
- Share some of your writings with your children
- Look for journals when you travel
- Try out different styles of journal writing
- Always ask for permission to read a journal
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Like Katie Frassinelli, a Book Artist:
- Invent your own book covers
- Come up with interesting topics for journals
- Learn to make mini-books
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Laurie Joy Haas, Executive Producer of Words that Cook!™ and co-author of Read it Aloud! A parent's guide to sharing books with young children, and Honey the Cookie-Bookie Bear suggest you:
- Remember, invented spelling is an important stage of writing
- Support children's attempts at writing
- Let children show what they know
- Help children when they ask for correct spellings
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Like Juvenile Fiction Author Adrienne Ross and her daughter:
- Ask each other questions to develop plots
- Turn surroundings into stories
- Talk about characters' perspectives
- See how others use similes, metaphors and vocabulary
- Read to compare different styles of writing
- Look for ways to improve your writing
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