As a teacher or parent, you can help a child develop the ability to tell basic stories and write her own ideas by encouraging her to write short stories. One technique is give her a picture and instruct her to write a story detailing the events in the picture or describing how a scene will conclude. Focus on the student's ability to tell a story and present ideas, rather than textual errors or punctuation mistakes.
Help a child develop an understanding of noun and verb usage by asking him to underline each noun or verb in his written sentences. Explain that each sentence has a noun and a verb, and encourage him to use each in his sentences. Alternately, you can show students written sentences and instruct them to identify the nouns and verbs in each sentence.
Encourage the development of a student's revisionary skills by giving kids a secondary writing assignment after each regular assignment in which the student reads and revises her work. Once the students complete their revisions, ask them to exchange papers with other students and revise each other's papers. This teaches students how to use the revision process as a basic part of the writing process.
Teach kids the difference between each type of sentence, and encourage them to use these types of sentences in their writing. Instruct students to underline each sentence in a specific color. For instance, underline all interrogative sentences in red, exclamatory in orange, imperative in green and declarative in blue. Use this technique to help students identify the types of sentences.