Excerpt from Inviting Children to Write:
Be A Scribe
Stories are also a way for a child to try out different roles and see what happens. It’s very important when a child is telling you an imaginative story that you don’t interrupt the flow of words to try to bring reality into the story process. Let the child explore with his or her mind and write down whatever is being said. In other words, encourage children to develop their imagination and don’t censor.
I wrote down many of the stories my children told me when they were young. I wish I had written down more. Some of these stories were turned into books. Their father loves books, so some of the stories were made into books to give him as presents. I helped make the books they gave their dad. As everyone got older, they no longer asked me to be their scribe. They both illustrated and wrote the story in the books they made on their own.
These books are treasures. I enjoy looking at them now and reading through them. Some of them were written and typed using invented spelling. …to read more, download the PDF file.