Writing Challenge

How many words can your child write in 10 minutes?

Set your child a challenge using a timer for ten minutes and get them to write all the words they can in that time. Concentrate on the small words they use everyday, names of people they know and words that rhyme with little words they know. You can prompt them...

Can you write I, a, is, to, today, day, the, is, me, we, he, in, on...
Can you write all the names of your family (mum, dad, sisters and brothers names, Gran etc)
Can you write at, and other words that rhyme with at (cat, hat, bat, sat, pat, flat, brat, that...)
Can you write words that rhyme with - in, got, get, and, look...
Can you write words with different endings (look, looks, looking, looked, play, plays, played, playing)
Can you write number words (one, two, three...)
Can you write colour or animal words (hen, dog, pig, red, green...)
Can you write other words you know...

How many can they do?

Did you know, that regular practise of writing like this can lead to considerable improvement of the number of words your child can spell. Why not set a monthly challenge and see if your child can beat their score for the previous month! It doesn't matter how many they can do to start with, over time they will be proud to see their score improve.

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