Top tips for bringing out the inner writer in your child

Encouraging children to write starts when they’re tiny, right when they first see Mum write a shopping list or a note for Dad, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

“That’s the first stage,” continues Niamh Fortune, teacher educator in Maynooth University’s Froebel Department.

Second stage is to give them any opportunity to hold a writing implement (thick pencils/crayons/markers) and to scribble.