Using PLAY to improve Writing - The AMERICAN GIRL
Writing seems to be a tough skill for most children. Actually many adults would confess to not being great writers either. And teaching writing can be an even bigger challenge. I’m not talking the mechanical act of writing… I’m talking about getting words into the form of sentences, paragraphs, dialogue, and pages, with a cohesive feel that accomplishes your purpose and reaches your audience.
I have found writing is less painful when it is associated with something FUN. Thus I promote writing from PLAY. (I am in the middle of a series called “Using PLAY to improve Writing.” You can find the videos on my FB page .)
I know what you’re thinking. How do I use PLAY to address writing?
First, let me clarify what I mean by writing. It’s any way that I, the writer, communicate what I understand OUT to an audience. It could be a paragraph, a data table, a graph, a visualization, a video, a script, a poster etc. And writing...