Love is Patience

原创文章：纽约英语教师谈父母如何提高孩子写作兴趣。

文/Amy Greenhouse

译/维拉

校/木铭

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1.首先，发现他们讨厌写作的原因。他／她是觉着写作很难？很无趣？没有论点？痛苦？当您的孩子坐在课桌前开始完成枯燥无味的写作作业时，不妨问他们一个简单的问题：“你的作业进展得还顺利么？”之后等待孩子的回答。他们的答案将成为您帮助他们开始写作的第一步。

2.对于大多数人，写作的开始是最困难并且最令人厌恶的部分。形成主题观点是写作过程中的第一步。引导您的孩子帮助他们形成这个观点。这不意味着您帮他们完成作业。您需要做的是通过提问，引导孩子自己找到这个观点，并且列举在清单里。和经常帮助别人引导他们产生写作观点的的人交流，扩充孩子的观点清单。讨论选择写对个人有意义的某些事情的重要性。如果您的孩子关注主题，他们不会感觉作业是那么的无聊。如果老师指定了主题，您不妨尝试着给孩子解释这项作业的重要性。

3.将写作和玩儿结合起来。创意写作就是一种让孩子对写作产生兴趣的方法。有些孩子可能说他们讨厌写作，但是所有孩子都会说他们爱玩儿。创造性写作可以轻松地成为让孩子们自然地爱上写作的类似于游戏的方法。您可以通过示范告诉孩子这一切是怎么实现的。比如：如果您的孩子正在和毛绒玩具、洋娃娃、或者小狗玩耍，您可以要求他们为这些人物编故事。您的孩子可以演示这个故事，您则可以在一旁记录孩子设计的对话和情节。之后您可以把记录下来的故事读给孩子听，他们会非常开心自己的故事被您记录下来。向孩子阅读故事，之后他们可以再为您表演一次。这样多次示范帮助孩子记录故事，孩子会慢慢受到鼓舞，学着自己完成写作。孩子们和朋友一起完成这样的活动也是很不错的，即便这样会让一切看起来纯粹是为了好玩儿的游戏，他们也能从中学习如何写人物特征、故事情节、人物对话。

4.向孩子展示写作在生活中的重要性和意义。和孩子讨论您是如何每天写作、如何将写作用于工作之中。当您起草邮件的时候，让孩子坐在一旁观看，向他们展示在发送邮件之前，您是如何修改和编辑邮件的。

5.让写作社交化。邮件和博客让写作相比从前更加普遍。让您的孩子和一位朋友或者亲人进行邮件往来，因此他们会意识到写作是多么重要，同时意识到除了完成作业，写作的其他用处。

6.用一个特殊的笔记本记录特殊的事件，比如：生日、节假日和旅行。让其他家庭成员参与到编辑中。您的孩子越是看到您参与写作、越是看到您享受写作的过程，那么他们对写作的抵触就会慢慢减少。

*********** 以下为英文原稿 *******

My child hates writing. How can I convince him/her to learn to write?

Even children who are very resistant to writing can learn to love it if they are given the supports needed to be successful.

1. First, find out why your child hates writing. Does he or she find it difficult? Boring? Pointless? Painful? When your child is sitting down to work on a dreaded writing assignment, simply ask them, “How’s it going?” and then wait for them to give an answer. Keep their answer in mind as you help them get started on the assignment.

2. For most people, getting started on a writing project is the most difficult part and the part they hate the most. The first step in the writing process is generating topic ideas. Guide your children by helping them generate a list of ideas. This does not mean you do the assignment for them. This means you ask them questions that will help them create a list of ideas. Talking with someone else often helps a writer create a more extensive list. Discuss the importance of choosing to write about something personally meaningful. If your children care about the topic, they will less likely find the assignment boring. If a teacher assigns the subject matter, try to help your children understand the importance the assignment.

3. Connect writing to play. Creative writing is a great way to get children interested in writing. Some children might say they hate to write, but all children will say that they love to play. Creative writing can easily become an extension of the pretend games that children naturally love. You can help by modeling how this is done. For example, if your child is playing with stuffed animals, dolls or puppets, you can ask him or her to make up a story about the creatures. Your child can act out the story and you can write down what the creatures said. You can then read the story back to your child. Your child will be delighted to see their writing down on paper. Show them how that now they can perform the story again. After a few times of helping your child write down the stories, you can encourage them to do the writing by themselves. They can also be encouraged to do this with friends. Although it might seem just like fun and games to your child, they are learning how to write characters, settings and dialogue.

4. Show your child how writing is important and useful in your life. Discuss how you use writing in your everyday life and in your career. Have them sit down next to you as you compose a email. Show them how you revise and edit the letter before you send it.

5. Make writing social. Email and blogs have made writing much more social than ever before. Have your child do an e-mail exchange with a friend or relative so they see that writing is important and used beyond the classroom.

6. Use a special notebook to record special events like birthdays, holidays and trips. Have each member of the family write something in the notebook. The more your children see you write and enjoy the process, the less likely they will resist.