Creative writing ideas and activities are just the antidote you need if you're faced with a reluctant writer.
In this video, you'll see I share some of my homeschooling secrets and show you some ideas I used to tempt my son to write.
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You'll also see that I urge you to try not to panic! Writing does come in the end.
You can find the right activities and prompts to tempt your kids to succeed where school often fails.
You can help by using homeschool creative writing activities and prompts to get your child wanting to write.
Once they've got there, everything else will follow.
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One of the best creative writing ideas I've found is to encourage your kids to start writing stories.
Once you've planted the seed and writing becomes something your kids want to do all the other English skills will follow.
Here are some of the creative writing prompts free homeschool story worksheets that we've made specially for you:
You'll see lots of story ideas for all ages. Invent your own Animal Ark story, meet an alien and tell us How To Keep Dinosaurs!
"My two younger children have started their own secret mission club. They have missions they
need to complete, codes to only show one another and no one else can
see them on this mission.
To surprise them I have
set up a 10 step mission. I've hid all the clues really good. Hoping it
would take quite some time. I'll post the first step on here.
At the end there is a candy bar for each. But they need to share!
~ Nikki
A good motivation to help with English is if your kids writing will be read by their friends!
Tips: We had a lot of success with a homeschool book review kids blog; it doesn't matter how short the review - it's exciting to see it up on the web!
One of the very good writing prompts would be if your kids would like to keep their own blog or contribute to a website.
It certainly helps to get the creative juices flowing when you're inspired by other people's books!
You can download free full length audio books to listen to.
My friend Lisa Vaught came up with a brilliant suggestion about making a paper bag book. You can see all the instructions here.
It's a really original, nice project and even includes a puppet theater!
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Final Tips: Teaching writing can be a test of patience!
Take a deep breath and try not to push; writing will come in time. That's a rule I found very hard to follow, as you'll see if you look at my page on difficulties with homeschooling.
If you're still struggling, I have lots more activities and prompts which will help your kids with creative writing ideas.
Creative writing ideas are the best way to help kids get inspired with English.
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