A Storybook - A Goal


Let me show you what inspiration looks like and where it may go.
 
A 5 year old has written her first storybook after learning 'how to write letters' in preschool for 6 weeks. The storybook is shown below. That is it! Not the book cover, nor a draft.
 
The storybook tells about (herself - 'Zara') going to a zoo, seeing a 'kangaroo', a 'koala' (bear), and other animals on locations in the zoo.
 
No, this is not a great book to read. But it is her first storybook. She read the book to us and told us that she wants to write more storybooks later.

First Storybook by ‘Zara’

We asked her 'Did you learn to write storybooks at school?'
She said she is learning to write letters (Latin glyph), 2 letters every day. [She has been going to school 5 days a week, for 6 weeks now, that means she has learned to write 60 letters of the English alphabet (26 Uppercase/capital letters, 26 lowercase/little letters, 10 numbers, and other symbols/marks like . , + - ? $ ...) so there are more to learn in many later weeks.] Many of us would remember watching 'Sesame Street' and the words at end each episode 'Today's episode of Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter K, and by the number 2' (or others letters and numbers). That's how writing lessons go.

But she is also learning to listen to (and read along the teachers) many storybooks (one storybook a day). And sometimes, she has to go in front of the class and speak about her weekends or other activities. [Zara swims, peddles bicycle, rides on push-scooter, climbs structures and trees at various playgrounds, hops from stumps to stumps, glides down on a flying-fox Zip wire, tumbles on a trampoline, walks Indy the family dog, watches children's programs on TV, plays games on tablets and phones, helps Mum with some house chores, sings and dances, draws and paints, ...make a list of what a child does in a day and you will be amazed!]
 
We can't read this storybook or one written by our children?
Well, we can ask the 'author' to read it for us.

We think that the words should be lined up in 'neat' rows?
Well, that's what we have been conditioned to expected. Our children too will soon be conditioned to follow conventions. For now, let them put things in their own space, in their own way.

What is more important now? 
To write like an adult would write (in rows with lots of extra symbols to place things in 'place' and 'time'); or to express the ideas as best as can do? [The storybook in the picture (as told to us) is about an open zoo with koalas on the left, kangaroos on the right, others animals here and there. Now do we get the idea of 'an open zoo is like'? In a painting with words instead of pictures.]  Most of us would agree on free expressions. If this book does not look like free expression, then…
 
Do we read their inspiration and effort for a goal - to write storybooks?
It would be disappointing to the child[ren] if the spark of smartness is not read (and praised). We may have a serious LD (learning difficulties) and _We may need to go back to school and learn the wonders of life again._
 

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