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to teach handwriting - Handwriting without tears
to teach composition - 6+1 writting traits, Mom reads the book, then introduces the vocabulary, and then let the literay analysis begin. My son earned a big read question mark on his 'writing practice' at school with the sentence to illustrate the word 'breaks' in 1st grade.
"The TV show 'Blue's Clues' breaks the fourth wall."
Yeah, I had no idea he was gifted at the time - he just seemed to love it when I told him interesting tidbits - his eyes got so big and fixed on me, it just encouraged me!
Me: 'Look honey, 'Steve' is talking right to the audience! In my college class theater class they call that 'breaking the 4th wall - because there is usually an imaginary wall between the actors and the audience that the characters pretend to not be able to see us through, see?'
In the begining I thought DS was gifted because I filled his head with all these oddball thoughts. Only later did I try it with his friends and realize that most little noggins rebel at that sort of treatment.
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Smiles,
Grinity
