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Posted: June 22 2013 at 1:44pm | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal
Have any of you had a child who liked writing, but you, as their teacher, felt nervous about guiding them on the right path? My dd is going to be 12 and in the sixth grade. She is an advanced reader, but is not great at grammar or spelling. I'm not sure what to do for this next year. I have friends who have their children enrolled in Classical Conversation. I'm just not sure about that style of grammar and writing for her. I need help, helping her!       I want to encourage her to write, but have no idea how to go about it. Do you just do dictation? If so, what book do you use? I don't feel confident in checking her work, at all.

I appreciate any advice.

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Posted: June 22 2013 at 4:52pm | IP Logged Quote MichelleW
Writers need to write, but writer's can't improve without feedback. My dd is an avid writer. I have always been nervous about correcting her work because I want her to continue to feel that writing is fun. What we have done is clearly differentiate between writing assignments so that some are for fun, but others are about developing a particular compositional or grammatical skill, and others are for advancing learning in a specific subject area. This has worked really well. I only grade the elements we have agreed upon before the assignment, and I never grade anything that she wrote for fun. I don't even read it unless invited.

The other thing we did was join a writer's group. This encouraged her to write even more. None of it is graded, but most is read in front of the group or at open mic once a month. The group is mostly adults and meets at the public library. You might have something like that at your library as well.

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