Education: Easy Journaling Tips

Easy Journaling Tips

Written by Lorraine Curry

Journaling is a stress free learning technique. My children who journaled seemed to have much more pleasure in—and success at—writing. (I have included samples of our children’s writing in Easy Homeschooling Companion. Easy Homeschooling)

Children want to be just like their parents and your writing will inspire their writing, so let your young child see you journaling, even before that child writes. Rather than being a chore, you will find journaling to be multifaceted and rewarding.

1) Always date your writing. You may want to publish your journal someday!

2) Write daily. Make it a habit.

3) Fiction becomes nonfiction. There is a creative power in repparttar spoken and in repparttar 109127 written word.

4) Write repparttar 109128 solution, not repparttar 109129 problem. Keep it positive!

5) Do Rapidwriting - no need to think, edit or rewrite. Let it flow. Save repparttar 109130 editing process for when you publish your journal!

6) Don’t think any dream is too big. With God all things are possible (Matt. 19:26).

7) Be specific. If journaling goals, get a clear picture of exactly what you are reaching for.

8) Make lists, including lists of questions about your life.

9) Sometimes list negatives and then turn them into positives.

5 Steps to Organized Writing

Written by Lorraine Curry

After your children are writing sentences, teach them about paragraphs. Paragraphs are repparttar

key to organized writing. Each paragraph should contain one main idea or thought, and a topic sentence that sums up that thought in a nutshell. The paragraph should also contain supporting sentences that explain or supplement repparttar 109126

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topic sentence.

Here is how you could do this with your children:

1) Tell your students to write a rough draft composition (about one or two pages long). Emphasize that their work will be rewritten after they learn a new writing technique. This composition can be about a book read, an experience, a trip or perhaps even be an original piece of fiction. (See more ideas in repparttar 109128 Easy Homeschooling booksEasy Homeschooling

2) Next—perhaps repparttar 109129 next day—have your children circle, highlight, underline or bold (if using a word processor) repparttar 109130 sentences that are most important. These are repparttar 109131 topic sentences. In a handwritten one page essay, there should be approximately two to five topic sentences. You could use a different colored highlighter or pencil for each paragraph.

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