And so it begins.
Junior kindergarten teacher Carrie Beredo
sits at a tiny table next to an eager 4-yearold, who grasps a pencil and begins to
practice the big line, little line, big curve,
little curve, building the fine motor
skills needed to write. And so it begins.
Before the great novel or essay can be
written, before creative thought translates
into poetic expression, writing starts at
the tiny table, where small muscles learn
to grip the writer's first tool, the pencil. ΒΈ
Practitioner as Teacher
Lower School Author
Poet With a Voice
Budding Novelist
Lower schoolers discuss their journals.
Precise Wordsmith
Foundation Builders
instilling PASSION,
FOSTERING talent
By Evelyne Girardet & Linda Hennelley
Latin School of Chicago
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