Writing couplets with kids is a good way to introduce poetry. Couplets are short, often funny, and have the classic rhyme and meter that kids associate with poetry. What is a Couplet? A couplet is a pair of lines that rhyme. Usually both lines have the same meter, or number of syllables. A couplet expresses […]
Book Making in Preschool
When my daughter was a preschooler, she would dictate stories to me, and I’d write the text for her. Other times I’d help her write a sentence, one word at a time. Book making in preschool was slow, painstaking work. By the time she got through one word, she’d forget what she wanted to say […]
The Only Keyboarding Curriculum You Need
I remember when my daughter was learning how to use the computer. She loved to write stories, and for two years I watched her laboriously “hunt and peck” while hunched over the keyboard. I cringed every time. Was this a bad habit in the making? Would she ever learn to type correctly? I knew […]
Change the Way You See Your Preschool Writer
How do you see your preschooler as a writer? Is she a pretend writer, a scribbler, or an emergent writer? Do you attach descriptors to explain the quality of your preschooler’s writing? If so, maybe it’s time to change the way you see your preschool writer. My son’s as an emergent writer. He can write […]
How to Make Counting Books With Preschoolers
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click through one of my links and make a purchase, I will receive a commission. Does your preschooler know how to count? My son is confident with counting up to 20 now, but he used to skip 15 all the time. One day he counted the letters […]
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