Tip #128 from 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents (McKinley, Trombly) - Family Chain Story
Today's tip for parents from two talented teachers comes from 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly. #128 Family Chain Story Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. ~Charles Kettering Your family’s imagination is the only limit to this activity! All it takes to begin is a piece of paper, a pencil and some creativity. You can begin (or let your child start) by writing a sentence on the paper. This will be the beginning sentence to a story so you might want to discuss a variety of ways to begin a story, perhaps by reading the first few sentences of a wide variety of books. Now, post this paper somewhere for all to see such as the message center (Idea #6). Everyone else in the fam...