On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 07:08 AM, Lollizah wrote:
my daughter (who is nearly 7)
She's six.? Don't raise it up in the grandmother's range. :-)? She's only six.??
it's possible that your daughter will have fun.
The first thing I would say to the grandmother is "if it's not fun for her, change the game to looking at pictures."? Maybe if the child is talking about pictures and names something that's in the text, it wouldn't hurt for someone to say "there's 'tree'" or something, but not a long "lesson" about phonics.
This might help, if the grandmother doesn't think talking about the pictures is good for anything. It's one of the skills of writing.?
From that page, something by Pam Sorooshian:??
Good conversation is really writing development. Sometimes I see parents who kind of shush their kids or get obviously bored when their kids are telling them a rather long drawn-out story (like retelling a movie plot). But retelling a tv or movie plot or telling everything that happened, in order, in a video game are really great for writing. In fact, all that verbal stuff¡ªconversation, summarizing movies, persuading or arguing, playing games, etc.¡ªis MUCH better for developing good writing than practicing writing in the artificial ways that schools do it.
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I hope other people have good ideas, too, and I hope people will see your question.? ?
Sandra
