Year 1 & 2 WRITING

HOW PARENTS CAN HELP AT HOME WITH WRITING

• If your child would like to write at home here are some suggested motivations - retell a story, diary writing, use your five senses and explain what you saw, heard, felt, tasted, smelt, magazine pictures, topics of interest to your family, photographs.

Learners can write -

• • Letters to family, friends

  • Notes to family members

  • Signs for their bedroom

  • Alphabet books

  • Labels and lists

  • Email a friend

• Regularly practise correct handwriting formations of lower and upper case letters using the correct pencil grip.

• Praise your child when they attempt to write.

• Help your child to learn the names of the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make.

The Speech Sounds of New Zealand English

• Encourage your child to tell you about and read their writing.

• Share their writing with others.

• Provide felts, crayons, chalk, and a computer to write with.

• Let your child see you as a writer.