Check out these budding authors and illustrators who have just started at GLS from Room 7.

Our new learners from Room 7 enjoyed sharing their writing and artwork which they had created in response to their reading book - My Pets.  

Writing is a terrific way for children to express their thoughts, creativity, and uniqueness. It is also a fundamental way in which children learn to organise ideas and helps them to be better readers.  

 Ideas to help with writing at home: 

Give them reasons to write

• Write to each other. Write notes to your child and leave them in interesting places, like their lunch box. Ask them to write a reply
• Help them email, text or write to family, whānau or friends
• Work with them to put labels on special things – like the door to their room or their toy box.
• Display their work. Put it on the fridge. Be proud of it. Share it with others.

Talk about their writing

• Talk about the letters in your child’s name and where the name comes from.
• Help them create a scrapbook with pictures. Encourage them to write stories under the pictures and talk to you about them.
• Ask them to write about pictures they draw - on paper or on the computer. Or get them to tell you the story and you write it under the picture.
• Talk about what your child writes. Be interested. If you don’t understand what your child’s picture or story is about, ask them to tell you about it.

Encourage writing

• Have felt pens, pencils, crayons and paper available
• Put magnetic letters on the fridge – ask what words they can make with the letters.