How did you introduce your child to writing?

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Brandi

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I'm trying to get my daughter ready for preschool by teaching how to write. After half an hour of trying she was close to tears and I needed to lay down. I took her hand and wrote "A" 10 times then I asked her to try it on her own she started singing and made a squiggle that corresponds to no english letter I know. We tried again and again. It was much the same with numbers. My daughter has always been a slow learner and needs a great deal of attention to grasp basic concepts like drawing a line and a circle (that was a 5mon lesson).

I don't know what to do at this point my almost one year old who I haven't been teaching sits behind me and does what I ask my almost 4 year old to do. I praise him and she seems to feel even worse can anyone please give me some advice?
 
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cacti87654

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My neice is exactly the same.
She is almost 3, and i have grabbed her hand and written A and said a billion times 'a for apple'

She doesnt want it.

She knows the exact context within which to use fcck but she cant recall 'a for apple'

i dont know, just keep at it
and dont push YOURSELF too much
^^

ps, edit
she likes to use the pictochat on my old DS
its very interactive.
 
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armywife2004

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She sounds like my son, we figured out hes a combination of visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning. Meaning just one type of thing, like drawing the A over and over wasnt working for him. We had to draw the A over and over, talk about the lines that make an A, ( we would say while drawing it angle left down, angle down right and line across the middle) (finding riddles that make drawing letters easier, like my son couldnt figure out E and F, so he learned 3 is E (3 lines off the strait line for E) and then kinsethitic learning where we would go around the house looking for things with the letter A, or making the letter A from slices of paper (hands on stuff) Hope that helps you!! :)
 
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asrai

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30 minutes of trying anything at 3 years old is TOO Much. Work on shapes at this age. If she can draw shapes that`s wonderful. 3 years old is VERY young to know letters, numbers, shapes. I know it`s become the norm in our country, but in countries like Finland where they have the best schools in the world, they don`t start school until age 7, becuase 3-6 years olds are not made to learn the stuff we try to shove into them.
 
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