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- Every child becomes a published author.
- Think It Ink It provides an opportunity for children to team up with a real-life professional illustrator.
- Our illustrations are filled with rich details to capture the reader’s imagination and enhance their visual literacy.
- Think It Ink It’s professional illustrations provide a topic and initial ideas for writers to use as a starting point to help them express their “inner author.”
- There are no right or wrong answers.
Think It Ink It is an exercise in writing AND reading and therefore is full of benefits for children. How? Our books have no words. Without words to read, our writers have to be creative and use their imaginations to translate the pictures into words and stories that make sense.
As children write their own Think It Ink It story they develop many literacy skills including the following:
- Writing
- Reading
- Pre-reading
- Comprehension
- Sequencing
- Visual Literacy
- Vocabulary
- Imagination & Creativity
- Character Development
- Critical thinking
- Interpretation
- Inferential Thinking
- Organization
- Editing
- Drafting
- Creating
- Attention to Detail
- Fluency
- Cause and Effect Relationships
- Story Structure (beginning, middle and end; characters, action, outcome; setting; theme)
Lastly, writing is about self-expression. Whatever our age, we all have different ways of telling a story, different lenses through which we see the world, and different experiences and characters in our lives.
At Think It Ink It Publishing, we want to see writers express themselves by telling their story – one which shares the writer’s lens on life to give others insight into their point of view. We hope that providing this opportunity empowers children to identify as writers and authors.
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