Whether you’ve got a budding author in the home or a reluctant writer, there are ways to help boost them along by providing opportunities of writing in addition to your language arts curriculum. Teach your children how to write historical fiction to give them engaging experiences that take advantage of interest-led learning and their imagination to cover several subjects in one activity. By giving your children a general framework of a writing assignment (instead of a specific writing topic), you can guide them to flourish with their own creative flair.
Writing can become one of those subjects that kids lose enthusiasm over because the topics are dull and not aligned with what matters to them. With a minimal amount of planning on your part, you can create writing assignments for your children that they are more likely to get excited about.
While you can focus on various genres of writing, we’ll give you some pointers on how to encourage your learners to write a historical fiction story by providing an outline of how to set up their story with a certain style of writing and some motivating options to make writing more meaningful for them.
Writing can come in different forms and is a great way of expressing the writer’s thoughts and feelings. When writing historical stories of fact or fiction, don’t limit your children to just one style of writing. Test out different styles and see which one they gravitate towards. Here is a short list of the main styles to try.
It’s a rewarding feeling to see your book up in a store as a published piece of your hard work! There’s no reason why your child can’t write a book of their own too. You could create a printed book or a digital eBook.
Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing is a popular platform to publish your creations for free. You can set a price for your work, choose which countries to make it available in, and learn how to format your work to meet Kindle’s requirements. You can also decide on whether you want to print as a paperback, ebook, or both.
If you decide to publish a book online through Kindle Direct Publishing, you can turn this into a learning opportunity for time management and goal setting by introducing weekly milestones or goals to meet towards publishing work online.
Who knows? You could have the next bestseller!
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With a search online and through homeschool organizations, you can find writing contests and events to have your children submit their writing work to.
Look out for the Creative Writing Roundup with The Canadian Schoolhouse every spring! We invite everyone from all ages to contribute to a themed creative writing piece that gets published into an eBook. Practice your writing skills and then enjoy reading all the entries and sharing your story with friends and family. See all the details and the past events on the Creative Writing Roundup page.
Try different things with your children to discover what motivates them to get writing! With a wide selection of topics about the past, teaching your kids how to write historical fiction is vast enough to appeal to every child. Chances are, they do like writing. They just may not have found the style or topic that gets them excited yet.
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