{"id":3497,"date":"2015-04-07T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:00:27","slug":"turn-writing-into-a-game-for-your-child-with-quick-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/turn-writing-into-a-game-for-your-child-with-quick-writes\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn writing into a game for your child with \u2018quick writes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing can be hard work. But a <em>quick write <\/em>is a fun and easy way to encourage your child to get his ideas down on paper.<\/p>\n<p>Quick writes are just what they sound like\u2014writing that people do in short periods of time. Usually, a quick write is based on a question or an idea. You ask a challenging question and set the timer for five minutes. Then both you and your child write down everything you can before the timer beeps.<\/p>\n<p>Once the quick write is finished, compare what each of you has written. The next time, let your child choose the quick-write topic.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some quick-write ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Would it be a good <\/strong>or a bad idea if dogs could talk? Why?<\/li>\n<li><strong>The best birthday <\/strong>I can imagine would be&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>If I were invisible, <\/strong>I would&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>It was a stormy day, <\/strong>so I decided I would&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zebras have stripes <\/strong>..<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ten years from now, <\/strong>I will be&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>I invented <\/strong>the most amazing machine. It does&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>When I woke up <\/strong>this morning, I was a different person. I was&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even kids who usually stare into space when it\u2019s time for a writing assignment may like a quick write. They are often surprised to discover just how much they know or have to say about a particular subject. Your child will gain confidence when he sees how much he can write in just a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: L. Reif, <em>100 Quickwrites: Fast and Effective Freewriting Exercises that Build Students\u2019 Confidence, Develop Their Fluency, and Bring Out the Writer in Every Student, <\/em>Scholastic Books.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Find more activities and ideas for parents to help their children in the April edition of the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbschools.com\/ParentConnection\/news\/\"><em>Parents Make the Difference newsletters<\/em><\/a><em> provided by VBCPS Parent Connection. Editions for elementary, middle and high school parents are posted monthly on vbschools.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing can be hard work. But a quick write is a fun and easy way to encourage your child to get his ideas down on paper. Quick writes are just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-parent-connection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}