How to Improve Your Child's Writing Skills at Home (Ages 6–14)
Eight ways to help, from planning and talking first to reading more and writing for a real reader, with what to expect at each age.
Children's writing improves with regular short practice, a plan before they start, talking ideas through first, plenty of reading and a real reader for what they write. At home, aim for little and often, fix one thing at a time, and keep the child's voice in the writing.
Eight ways to help
- Little and often. Ten to fifteen minutes, several times a week, builds writing better than a long session once a week. Schools are advised to give children time to write every day (IES, 2012).
- Plan before writing. Beginning, middle, end, or "who, wants, but, so". Planning is one of the strategies with the strongest evidence for improving children's writing (IES, 2012).
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