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Keeping a Reading Log for Kids

Heather Goldsmith — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:37:50 +0000

Tonight I just don’t feel so good. Just one of those yucky coughs draining all my energy. So, I’m being a little lazy with this entry. A long time ago I used to write for another website. This article on keeping a reading log for kids is one of the many articles I wrote. I hope you enjoy reading & find some useful ideas to use with your own kids. Please leave any comments in the section below on this blog, though.

Heather
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Keeping a Reading Log for Kids

Be a Better Writer

Heather Goldsmith — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:25:53 +0000

I enjoyed this news story on one of the ways to encourage better writing; that is simply to read. The article also mentions parents modelling writing as a good form of communication and the use of a journal.

The article quotes Steve Peha and Margot Carmichael Lester, a husband and wife team, who created the series for children on improving writing ability; Be a Better Writer: Power Tools for Young Writers!: Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers.

I’m assuming the writers encourage your kids to keep a journal. I know my example encouraged both of my grown-up children to keep a journal themselves. My daughter is an avid night time writer. My son is more a visual person and keeps a visual journal.

Even the little guy gets in on the act. When I sit to write in a café and he’s with me, he always shows me his writings. Ok, they don’t look like much more than loops and swirls, but I know he’s copying his mum. I hope this book does something to encourage your kids to keep a journal, too.

Heather
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More Journal Writing Prompts for Kids

Heather Goldsmith — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:29:27 +0000

I’ve done a bit more searching for some journal prompts for children. Hopefully these will be useful to you and/or your children.

Hallmark has an interesting article with journal writing ideas for kids.

Scholastic offers a Descriptive writing workshop online which would work well for journal writing.

About.com has an article on Journal Writing in the Classroom.

Free worksheets to print out for journal writing every day of the year.

Something for you to read on the benefits of journal writing for kids.

Please share any other good links and prompts to journal writing for kids you may know of in the comments section below.

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Journal Writing as a Learning Tool

Heather Goldsmith — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:42:28 +0000

Teachers are constantly looking for ways to make learning easier for their students. One technique gaining more attention recently is journal writing. Of course, in the classroom this is nothing like the personal time spent writing only what the writer is likely to read. But then, even that shouldn’t be ruled out. Some children are more likely to feel comfortable about this than others. Their privacy should be high priority, but those who want to should be given room to read aloud to the class.

Instructional Strategies Online has an excellent article on how to use journal writing and how to adapt journal writing to the classroom setting. They’ve suggested some great ways to use journal writing, which may seem a little different. In particular the link to the information about adapting Maths Journals intrigued me. Perhaps I may have enjoyed the subject better at school if my teachers had employed journal writing as a way to solve mathematic problems.

There’s even a list of resources for teachers who want to explore these ideas further. I found journal writing worked well for home schooling, too.

Here’s some more from Scholastic on Maths Journals.

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Journal Writing Prompts for Kids

Heather Goldsmith — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:31:53 +0000

Kids love to write in response to prompts. It matters little if you encourage them to use the prompts for writing journal type entries or to begin stories. As long as they write something. Here’s a couple of links for today, but I will add more prompts as I find them. Feel free to use these yourself, as any writing prompt is helpful, no matter if it is for children. You can always imagine you are a child when you respond:

Tooter4kids.com
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