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=This is the place to see some fun writing activities.=

"If it's not fun it's not gonna get done!"
=Captions!= Children love pictures and looking at them provides them with very basic literacy skills such as turning pages, learning the front and back of English books, and hopefully, an awareness of left to right reading. **(You __are__ reading to your child every day aren't you?)**

A simple and fun activity is to provide a choice of pictures that can be cut or torn out and pasted onto a background. I have a big batch of old nature calendars that are perfect. (Other sources can be advertisements, brochures, comics, coloring books, magazines, etc.) Talk with your child and see what they think about their favorite picture.

Help them write a colorful, descriptive caption that works with the picture. They should print large enough so that it is readable when it's up on the wall or refrigerator. = =