Games for Writing: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Write - Hardcover

Kaye, Peggy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374160244 ISBN 13: 9780374160241

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995

Synopsis

Suggests more than fifty games to help children become skilled and confident writers, with specific activities to improve handwriting, learn the alphabet, and expand vocabulary

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A wizard at turning learning tasks into delightful games that leave children - and parents - clamoring for more, Kaye offers a wealth of activities covering every aspect of writing. Children will maneuver through mazes to improve their handwriting, learn the alphabet by baking pretzels, play rhyming games to stretch their vocabulary, and crack secret codes while practicing their spelling. Even the most hesitant young authors will warm to writing when creating menus for monsters, thinking up orders that parents must obey, and composing stories - long, long stories - on adding-machine tape. The games are easy to play, requiring few or no materials, and are remarkably effective. While playing, children develop the skills needed to write clear and lively prose. Better yet, they may discover a true love of writing.

About the Author:

Peggy Kaye is a reading and math tutor in New York City. She has a master's degree in early-childhood education from Columbia University's Teachers College and has taught in both public and private elementary schools.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0374160244
• ISBN 13: 9780374160241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 213