Dear Educator,
Did you know that each of us have a story to tell from when we were babes to present? We all want to share and talk about a favorite recipe, a memorable trip or a good book. Our stories connect us to our family and friends.
Tell Me A Story is a booklet providing an academic year of 180-days of journal prompts broken down by seasons. Topics range from sharing your favorite way to spend your day to inventing a machine. Or looking at the mirror and describing what you see or sharing about your dad and what you love about him.
The stories your children will want to share and talk about will soon be penned on to your child's journal as it had for my children. To this day, my oldest son continues to journal and tell back all that he noticed and observed from his independent readings or from our family read-aloud. Your child's journal entries form the foundations of developing a discipline to write daily. This type of writing - good old-fashioned story telling - prepares your child for developing compositions. Journaling is a natural, organic path to honing your child's craft of writing well without following any formulaic writing curricula. Formal composition lessons are not necessary. If your child has read well, they will write well. It is, as Charlotte Mason, the British educator has said, “Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books."
My prayer is that Tell Me A Story and my newest booklet, Tell Me A Story Again, will be a blessing for you and your family.
Blessings,
Jan
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