Bored with Writing?
March 25, 2020
Are you and your child getting bored with writing each day? You may want to try writing a story together! You can take turns adding one sentence at a time to a story. Choose a topic you want to write about and then consider who the characters are, where the setting is, what problem occurs throughout the story, and what the solution is (how does the problem get fixed). This could be done over several days and may engage your child more in the writing process. Let your imagination go wild!
TIP: Brainstorm the characters, setting, problem, and solution before getting started! You could make a “thinking map” or “web.” Place the title of the story in the middle of the paper and then draw lines and bubbles from the title where you can think up each area of the story before getting writing to have a guide along the way!
Another fun way we spice up writing in class is by combining two animals and creating a new name for it or combining two habitats and creating a new name for the place and imagining what kind of animals live there!
If you choose to combine two animals, you can have your child pick two different animals and consider what character traits and physical attributes they want to include from each animal. Where would this hybrid animal live? What would this new animal eat? An example is combining a monkey and a lion together. We did this in class together several months back. We called our new animal a Lonkey and it had the body of a monkey, with a lions mane and tail.
Another way you could encourage writing is by having your child choose a noun (person, place, thing, or animal), then have them choose an adjectives or several adjectives to describe the noun, next have your child choose a verb (action word) which will describe what the noun is doing. Finally, have them tell where all of this is taking place (setting). An example might look like this: “The yellow hairy monster is sleeping under my bed.”
I hope this helps to give you some new ideas of how you can write at home with your child!
