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Martha
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Posted: June 24 2009 at 9:03am \| IP Logged

I'm thinking of using this for my very artistic 6th grader. He can't even to math without doodling little army scenes in the middle of it, or whatever. There's always a tale of some sort going through his brain.

I already have it and it looks okay with a very basic bite sized layout...

His grammar stinks, but his stories are actually very good and holding a pencil doesn't make him want to scream. Unlike a certian unnamed younger sibling, who oddly enough has wonderful penmanship and grammar skills.

So I'm thinking he could write some amazing stories with a little nudge in the right direction and learning how to edit will help tackle grammar without him feeling the need to turn all the exclamations into swords stabbing the capital letter next to it and leaving a puddle of blue ink blood dripping down to the next line.

Seriously. This is how my son does ALL his work. Which is a really interesting view into how his mind works, but not neccessarily indictative of a quality assignment.

Oh if it helps to know, he's been enjoying Intermediate Lang lsns and doing so-so at it. He gets the grammar in his lesson, it's just not transferring over to his writing. He gets all involved in getting his story onto paper to the point that he doesn't even notice what he is writing. If that makes sense.

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Posted: June 24 2009 at 10:56am \| IP Logged

Martha--I used LTWTNW with my 12 year old this year--who doodles constantly in his school stuff too and drives me mad! He is continuing to edit and write his novel into summer and perhaps part of this next year. The program is a bit weak on grammar IMO so I supplemented with a workbook from CHC. Perhaps it was just me (I am a math teacher by trade so am not as fluent in teaching grammar perhaps as I should be!) and he did not really need the supplemment. He has enjoyed the process and wrote the book entirely on his laptop (that he saved up for himself).

Hope that helps.

Laura

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Posted: June 25 2009 at 6:21am \| IP Logged

I'm planning on using this with my dd this year. She loves to write and has written several "novels" over the past couple years. I'm thinking this might help her work at her writing skills. She's planning on being a published writer someday (her hero is J.K. Rowling), so I'm thinking this will be a good program for her.

Her grammar is very weak, so I'm thinking of supplementing with CHC's grammar, is it necessary? Is there enough grammar in the writing program that the CHC workbook would be overkill?

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Posted: June 25 2009 at 8:41am \| IP Logged

If I make him focus on writing correctly, he can do it, but the quality of the writing goes down terribly. So I can get an awesome story that looks like a run on sentence for 3 pages or I can get a 3 short sentences well done.

I don't expect that L2WTNW will be a grammar source. Rather I think it will teach him to edit, and eventually I hope the editng gets less cumbersome as his grammar is repeatedly brought to his attention.

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