Love is the most powerful and ever lasting driving force behind everything we do in life. It's the most crucial component to ensure the quality of the product we produce. For most kids, the passion for a good story starts at a very young age. They will use all their ingenuity to delay bed time when you have a good story to tell or read. It's every parent's responsibility to preserve and protect our children's passion for a good story. Unfortunately, as more and more distracting elements invade our lives, some children eventually lose their interest in good stories from the books. This leads to a general disinterest in pursuing knowledge and wisdom.
Fortunately, it's never too late to reestablish your child's interest in learning. Love and passion can be restored. Most parents do not expect their child to excel at sports without coaching and daily practice. Most children would love to write a story, any story, if supplied with a supportive audience to appreciate and cheer them on. Imagine the level of enthusiasm, focus, and encouragement you find at a Little League Game. Apply this same level of energy to your child's writing and you'll be amazed by the results.
With the help of technology, writing has never been easier. Technology helps break common barriers and fears, such as the fear of not knowing how to spell the words correctly, the fear of writing down the wrong sentence in the wrong place, or frustration at spending a long time to erase and edit unwanted parts. Typing gives your child the freedom to go wild with the blank space in front of them. They can simply write, write, write, which, as most successful writers will tell you, is the key to improvement. Knowing how to type well releases the fear and inhibition that prevents many children from trying. More and more children will become better and happier writers. This book provides foolproof tips on teaching kids how to type and make the most of the tools today's technology can provide.
A unique hands-on guide, Flying Fingers features a compilation of Adora's stories followed by easy-to-follow writing tips from Adora, her mother, and her teacher. We hope to bust the myth that writing is hard by showing parents and educators practical methods to ignite a child's passion for writing. Adora's stories provide aspiring young writers with an example of what we can accomplish when we give ourselves over to joy in the endless possibilities a blank page offers. Seeing a concrete example of what an seven-year-old can accomplish can make all the difference, and Adora's fun-to-read stories are here to remind aspiring young writers that the land of the imagination is infinite and offers a way to triumph over the limitations and frustrations of day-to-day life.
Fiction writing is a very effective way to open up a child's love for all kinds of writing. By browsing through the body of Adora's work, you will find that her writing spans from sophisticated fiction writing, to journalism, to poetry and historical essays. We have compiled historical fiction, fantasy, contemporary stories, animal tales, school newsletter/magazine, and collection of her poems. Although Adora initially only liked to write historical fiction, once her passion for the written word was ignited, she began to take greater interest in all forms of writing.
Once a child discovers the thrill of creation, even seemingly dreaded academic writing assignments become enjoyable and interesting, and improvement in reading and writing simply falls in place. Flying Fingers provides you with the tools you'll need to guide your child towards a lifelong source of satisfaction, entertainment, wisdom, and validation. Happy Reading!