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 * Families of Students in Our Place**

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__Share different kinds of writing.__ Help children find the different kinds of writing around the house: menus, directions/manuals, lists, letters. message boards/signs, text on the computer.
 * Activities to Encourage Writing at Home**

__Write cards and letters.__ Help your child write cards and letters: invitiations, thank-yous,requests for information, complaints, get-well cards, birthday cards. __Listen to music.__ Share many kinds of music and ask children: What does this make you feel? What kind of music do you like best? Is there a kind of music or radio station everyone in the family will enjoy?

__Get dramatic.__ Encourage your child to: make up plays, act out their feelings. preten to be an animal, make up what a character would sound like from a favorite book; role-play solutions to problems.

Read with your child. Read anything-any time: newspapers, magazines, flyers, letters, cereal boxes, labels, books.

__Draw and paint.__ Make decorations for the house, draw pictures to mail to friends and relatives, draw while listening to a story, draw signs for remember to:turn off the lights, recycle, turn on the dishwasher;and fold the clothes and put them away.

//Resource: Scholastic Teaching Resources: Writing Traits Classrooms K-2//