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How to teach a child to write. Teaching writing - free course from 4brain, training 9 lessons, Date November 29, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / November 30, 2023
Today you can hardly find a person who cannot write. But the memory is still fresh of the times when people not only did not know how to do this, but did not even have the slightest literacy. However, even among the overwhelming majority there were always those who were trained in both writing and literacy. It was to such people that honest people came to take notes, read documents and perform other equally important matters and tasks. But what’s more interesting is that people who could either only write or only read were considered semi-literate.
In answering this question, there are several fundamental reasons for the importance of writing:
Thus, the importance of writing skill is very difficult to overestimate. But, naturally, in order for a child to be able to write beautifully, correctly and competently, his education needs to be addressed. Yes, it may not be very easy, but it is extremely important. Besides, if you teach your child to read and count, why not teach him to write?
Many parents ask themselves the question of how to do this while their children are still very young. They are looking for all sorts of ways to teach written literacy, beautiful handwriting, expanding vocabulary, etc., so that the child can go to school prepared, achieved great success in his studies, kept up with his classmates, etc. It is for these reasons that from the first years of life, mothers and fathers dilute the daily life of their children with different activities and lessons.
In the event that your idea is not a manifestation of ambition or a whim, but a true desire to educate your child’s healthy, holistic and harmonious personality, the information presented below is specifically for you.
Before you start teaching your child to write, you need to pay attention to one very important point. This is where we will start.
Anyone who wants to teach their child to write must immediately realize that to achieve success they will have to make every effort, and think through their own methodology. But we will talk more about the methods, but for now we will focus on the stages of training.
The stages presented are the categorization of teachers and pediatricians. By the way, according to their opinion, you should not start teaching a child to write before the age of three - this is still very early. But when the baby crosses this threshold, you can start little by little. As for periods, they must be taken into account. Let's consider the question in more detail.
1. Preparation period
Writing lessons will not bring any results if the child cannot perform several simple but very important actions. Based on this, at the first stage you need to teach the child:
Among other things, this also includes fairly developed fine motor skills, which we have already discussed. It is also more important that by the time the child begins to learn to write, he should already know the letters. This in turn indicates the need to study the alphabet before starting classes.
As a rule, the preparatory period corresponds to ages from three to five years.
2. Stage of learning to write in block letters
You will know that the preparatory stage was successful by how your child performs the above actions - each of them should already be well known to him and simple for him. As soon as this happens (in most cases at 5 - 5.5 years), you can safely begin to master printed letters.
3. Stage of learning to write in cursive
In the case of writing in capital letters, the situation is somewhat different. Taking into account the peculiarities (and for children, the difficulty) of writing them, it is better to move on to them closer to the school where copybooks are used. Well, or, in extreme cases, in older preschool age, i.e. at about five or six years old. It all depends on your decision and the desires and abilities of the child.
By building the learning process in accordance with these stages, you will make it harmonious, smooth and effective. And having looked at the stages of teaching children to write, it will be time to talk about the most common mistakes that parents make when getting down to business. When dealing with the early development of your child, try not to commit them.
And at the end of the introductory lesson, we want to give you a few more tips that will certainly be useful to you in your future practice.
These recommendations were not invented by us, but compiled by one of the most famous Russian academicians, psychologist, doctor biological sciences, professor and director of the Institute of Developmental Psychology of the Russian Academy of Education - Maryana Mikhailovna Bezrukikh. In her opinion, based on many years of experience, in the process of teaching children to write, the following should be taken into account:
This concludes the first lesson. In the second lesson we will introduce you to the basic principles and most popular methods used in teaching children to write. After reading them, you will know what can be used and what will be more effective specifically in your case.
Lesson 1. Basic principles and basic methods of teaching children to write
As should be understood, the process of teaching children to write is based not only on a certain methodology, but also on specific general didactic principles.
Therefore, first we will talk about them, and then we will talk about the methods.
Lesson 2. How to teach a child to write: preparation, games, tricks, recommendations
Teaching a child to write is a task, although difficult, but quite doable, and any responsible parent can do it. The question is rather when to start preschool education, because if you start too early, the child may have problems in the future. It is for this reason that the first thing you need to pay attention to is the development of fine motor skills.
For example, the famous teacher Vasily Sukhomlinsky said that the origins of children's abilities and talents are at the tips of children's fingers. It is no secret that with the development of fine motor skills, the corresponding parts of the brain also develop, muscle memory, attention, perseverance are trained, i.e. real preparation for writing takes place. And here you need to “seize the moment” when you need to do everything so that already in the first grade the child can learn more easily.
Lesson 3. Teaching writing to little ones
In the last lesson we already started talking about preparing children to learn to write. Next we will continue this topic and at the same time move on to the practice of initial training. As has already become clear, preparation begins several years before school. But many parents, in a hurry to quickly start classes, hastily study methods, but do not at all pay attention to self-control, because only it allows you to avoid committing the most common errors. The most important of them is starting training too early.
According to primary school teachers, based on many years of work experience, parents should not teach their preschool children how to write (especially in cursive). And the categorical nature of this opinion is, of course, based on a number of specific reasons:
Lesson 4. Letter in cursive
Despite the fact that teaching children to write correctly is one of the most important tasks of the school education system, and proper preschool preparation is always welcome, there is only one requirement for this very preschool preparation - that the child knows alphabet. As for the skill of beautifully writing letters, everything here - as God pleases - is not required for “enrollment” in first-graders.
But caring parents, in turn, do not want to let their child’s development take its course or shift responsibility for this onto the shoulders of teachers alone. Therefore, preschool writing classes are far from uncommon. And here we return again to the observations of teachers: it was noticed that children who learned to write at home conditions even before school, when they enter first grade, they often write worse than those who have already begun to master such a difficult skill at the desk.
Lesson 5. Learn to write correctly and without errors
The skill of beautiful and competent writing can easily be considered an indicator of the development of a person’s personality and individual culture. Unfortunately, no one is born with the ability to write letters in an exemplary manner, follow the rules for writing them, and not make mistakes. Only the hard work of parents and children makes it possible to develop the ability to write grammatically correct at an early age.
In the preschool period and in the lower grades, children make many mistakes in writing, and even in those cases when they copy a text from some sample or board, perceiving someone else’s speech by ear or expressing their own thoughts. And this, along with teaching children to write block and capital letters, is another topic that should definitely be considered. We will begin the sixth lesson with a description of the basic principles of teaching children to write correctly, and will continue with methods of teaching children to copy from samples and write from dictation.
Lesson 6. Getting rid of illiteracy in writing. Overcoming reluctance to exercise
Many children cannot understand why it is so important to be literate and write correctly. They calmly write “arel”, “mouse”, “orbuz”, and everything is fine - what difference does it make - “a” or “o” in a word, because it is already clear to everyone what it is about. Based on this, the first thing to do is to explain to the child himself the importance of literacy.
Literacy, and in particular literacy in writing, is today a sign of a person’s education. It is necessary for a student to be literate for the reason that there are written assignments and work in all subjects, which means that literacy is always needed. In addition, classmates, and in some cases teachers, often joke about children who cannot write correctly and make fun of them. And who likes it when they “poke their nose” at their own mistakes, and at the same time make fun of them?
Lesson 7. Learning to write essays
A student needs to be able to write essays just as much as the ability to rewrite texts from a sample, to write according to dictation, etc. Moreover, this skill is needed even by those who have not been blessed by nature with literary talent. Thus, while some children write essays without problems, others may find it very difficult. How to behave in such a situation? What can effective parental help consist of?
Lesson 8. Teaching a child to write in foreign languages
For a fulfilling life, which opens up many new prospects and opportunities, a modern person urgently needs to know at least one foreign language. With knowledge of a foreign language, you can enter a university with the appropriate requirements, go to study under a student exchange program abroad, make new acquaintances with people around the world, get a good position in a large international company, etc. And if we take into account that fact that it is best to acquire new knowledge at a young age, then you should start learning a foreign language before school, or at least in the first classes.
How to learn to read in a foreign language was discussed in the first block of our course. Now we will continue the topic of foreign languages, but we will consider it in the context of teaching writing. And we will again take English as an “experimental” language. The reasons are similar: English is an international language, very popular, in demand and quite easy to learn. So let's go, or as the Americans say: “Let's do it!”
Lesson 9. Teaching a child to type on a keyboard
Modern life is completely unthinkable without computers. They accompany a person everywhere, from home to the work office, from the coffee machine to the store cash register. Even without talking about global computerization, it becomes clear that being able to work with a computer is a must today. In many educational institutions (for now mainly in the West, of course), the place of notebooks and pens on school desks has been replaced by laptops. We will also talk about the advantages and disadvantages of introducing computers into the education system someday on the pages of our intellectual club, but for now we will continue.
Nowadays you don’t often meet an adult who doesn’t know how to work on a computer, let alone children. But if for the middle-aged generation it is enough to know basic programs and be able to use the Internet, and for grandparents it is quite lacks the skills to manipulate a push-button cell phone, then modern children need to master the intricacies of a custom computer Sciences. And one of the basic skills among them is the ability to quickly type on a keyboard.
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