Language
Writing a Book Together
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Communication goal 3: Children experience the stories and symbols of their own and other cultures.
Create a shared memory, give your child an opportunity to gain fine motor skills, extend emergent literacy and fire the imagination – it’s a great deal from one project.
If this is your first book together keep it simple so it remains interesting and enjoyable not frustrating.
Make use of photos, drawings, collage or pictures cut from magazines.
Discuss whether your book will be fiction or nonfiction. Here’s a great opportunity to encourage oral language and the imagination.
Help your child to think of captions and let them write any letters/words that they are able to or let them see you writing down their words and reading them back.
Books can be stapled, threaded, folded into a concertina shape.
Encourage literacy by giving your book a title and writing the name of the author and illustrator on it.
Share the story with family, whanau and visitors and of course your Early Childhood teacher who would love to be part of your special project.
Perhaps it will lead to a special shelf of books all written and illustrated by your child.
As Emilie Buchwald said – ‘Children are made readers on the laps of their parents’.(1994)