by NikkiYoungAuthor | Dec 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Does your child love to write stories? Writing stories can help children in so many ways. It not only improves literacy skills but also boosts creativity and imagination. Story writing helps build emotional intelligence and empathy by allowing children to understand...
by NikkiYoungAuthor | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
How honing your listening skills can benefit your writing. Writing is more than just what we see, but we often ignore our other senses because we default to our most dominant sense. Now, that’s not true for everyone, but it includes the majority of us. At...
by NikkiYoungAuthor | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ways you can help your children with their English and writing at home. There are a whole host of resources on line that are currently free to download at home to help with English and writing support. Educators have made this possible because they know parents will...
by NikkiYoungAuthor | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently worked with some Year Six children on story planning and writing, under timed conditions. We had 45 minutes, 15 of which were for story planning and the remaining 30 minutes for writing the story. This was the brief: You are lost in a desert and get caught...