Tip #119 from 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents (McKinley & Trombly) - Choice and Imagination in Reading
Today's tip for parents from two talented teachers comes from 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly.
#119
Until We Meet Again
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I—
I took the road less traveled by
and that has made all the difference."~Robert Frost
The two roads Robert Frost was talking about came together and offered him a choice. In the biographical books you read to your child or that she reads herself, rarely (if ever) do the paths of favorite people from different books come together. Wouldn’t it be neat if they did? Could your child make that happen? Sure! Here’s how:
1. Discuss with your child her favorite biographies and the people in them.
2. Have her choose her absolute two favorite people (from different biographies).
3. Help her make a list of the qualities, characteristics, likes, dislikes, etc. of these two people.
4. Now encourage her to think, draw, write—brainstorm in any way she finds helpful—what would happen if these two people met. What would they talk about? Where would they meet? (What setting would make sense?) What, realistically, would they do?
5. Now, she can write about it. Perhaps a paragraph would be a good goal at first. If she really enjoys the activity, you could try some of these variations. (You can take dictation for a younger child.)
Variations:
*Encourage her to write more, maybe even a short story about the encounter.
*Give her two people from biographies she has read about and have her use those two for the project. (Or, if she hasn’t read them, have her read them with this purpose in mind.)
*Write one at the same time she does, using the same two characters. Don’t show each other until you are done. How alike or different are they?
Cindy McKinley Alder Patti Trombly
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Cindy McKinley Alder Patti Trombly
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Julia Aziz, signing her book, Lessons of Labor, at an event at Book People in Austin, Texas.
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