How Can Parents Help With Writing?
1. Share your own writing with your child - for example, notes, shopping lists, personal or business letters you write.
2. Put a bulletin board in a convenient place and use it for messages for the entire family.
3. Ask your child to help with writing that needs to be done in the home - shopping lists, instructions for babysitters, notes to relatives, plans for family outings, and directions for visitors.
4. Help your child write thank you notes, holiday cards, and invitations.
5. Allow your child to keep a car journal for trips or simply a day's event such as a visit to the store or park.
6. Encourage your child to write stories and poems to relatives as gifts.
7. Help your child write letters for various purposes.
8. Write down and collect family stories into a "family book" that you can illustrate.
9. Encourage your child to write daily journals at home.
1. Read the problem twice from beginning to end.
2. Decide what question the problem asks.
3. Choose the correct math operation to solve the problem.
4. Pick out the information you need for the number problem.
5. Solve the number problem and check your answer.
6. Read the problem again to see if your answer makes sense.
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Mt. Ulla Elementary
Learn it, Know it, Show it!
Remember the Seven Keys to Proficient Reading for Children
1. Create Mental Images
2. Use Background Knowledge
3. Ask Questions
4. Make Inferences
5. Determine Most Important Ideas
6. Use Fix up Strategies
7. Synthesize
