Short pieces from Anuradha on getting children writing — and on what to do when they will not.
It is a sentence many children say when given a blank page. But children have ideas all the time — they may just not know where to look for them. Three steps that help.
WORTH THINKING ABOUTAI can write a flawless story in seconds. But a child who reaches for it first misses the part that matters — sitting with their own thoughts, and the tiny details that make the writing theirs.
THE CRAFTNo marks, no word limit, no prescribed ending. Hand them a notebook, set a timer, and stay out of the way. What comes back is rarely tidy, and that is the exercise working.
FOR PARENTSTen quiet minutes a day gives a child something screens never will: time to think without being entertained. Four things that follow from it.
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