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The Importance of PenPals
Six Reason Why PenPals Are Important for Children.
1. It will help to improve your child’s reading and writing skills. Perhaps most obviously, writing and receiving handwritten pen pal letters practices both reading and writing skills. In the day and age we live in emails and text messaging rely on shorthand (such as LOL, NP, THX), fail to capitalize and punctuate properly, and write in phrases instead of full sentences. While technology is very important, learning to properly write helps encourage better use of grammar skills. As well as it being so much more fun to practice writing while writing to a friend than writing for school. Plus in our technological world, how awesome is it to teach children the art of the handwritten letter.
2. It allows your child to connect to another person . Allowing your child to connect and share in another children’s joys and adventures is a great way to build a friendship. It teaches children to learn that there is a world bigger than themselves. Reading first-hand stories from their pen pal can encourage children to think creatively while reading and writing letters. It’s also a great way to teach children the art of gift giving. Finding a gift that their pen pals would enjoy encourages children to think of other before always asking to buy things for themselves.
