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The stories your child reads are full of issues and ideas that don't always "jump right off the page" at them. It takes imagination, curiosity, and the ability to pull together all the clues the author leaves them to try and understand the ideas that are hiding. Your child will need to become a detective to figure it out. This is not an easy thing for kids to do, and it's definitely not an easy thing to teach.
So let me teach you 4 reading comprehension strategies that will help your students notice patterns with the characters and how to give advice that will lead to a lesson, paying attention to how characters treat each other can lead to a theme, understand that a character’s actions can affect other characters; which can lead to a response that can help us learn a valuable lesson, and how to go from a one-word topic to a full sentence theme. |
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Oftentimes when children get an idea for their next story, they want to go off and start drafting it right away. But when they open up their notebook, see the blank page of lines, they don't know where to start. And this is where REHEARSAL comes in. Rehearsal is so much more than coming up with a topic or subject. You want to teach your child or students that fiction writers mull over possible directions, gather and sort information... and they PLAN! When they think through a story idea in some detail, they progress through a whole sequence of possible ideas--even before they actually start writing their first draft.
I have 4 mini lessons you can teach that will help your students develop believable characters, give their characters struggles and motivations, organize their plots with story mountains, and how to sketch out little scenes that will springboard into their first draft. |