Writing, Grade 7 Author: Visit Amazon's Spectrum Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0769652875 | Format: EPUB
Writing, Grade 7 Description
- Age Range: 12 and up
- Grade Level: 7 and up
- Series: Spectrum
- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: Spectrum; Upd Rev edition (June 1, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0769652875
- ISBN-13: 978-0769652870
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
My son use to hate writing. I tried a few of these different writing workbooks, and they made the problem worse. They seemed to over-complicate it, and were way too technical for young people. Sure, my kids went through the motions, but rarely did they retain the subject matter.
Then I stumbled onto something that worked far better with my youngest. All we had to pay for was a composition notebook at the dollar store. What I did was simply to start having him write in his journal for 10-15 minutes per day about whatever had happened that day or whatever he was thinking about. (After all, this is most likely what Da Vinci did as a child!)
For the first month or two, I didn't require him to correct any of his writing errors. That is what got the ball rolling. As he wrote about the things that mattered to him without the fear of making mistakes, writing became a lot more appealing for him.
Gradually, I began to help him with corrections to make his writing more readable. However, I was, and still am, very careful not to ask him to change too many things at once. That discourages him. The whole point is to foster the love of writing. I want to keep his fire lit. I just have him make 3 or 4 corrections at a time. The rest of the corrections I make for him as he observes.
Now he writes all the time, and his writing is improving by leaps and bounds. He even says that writing is one of his favorite subjects!
Through this experience, I have come to believe that writing (under these circumstances) will emerge naturally, very much like spoken language. We don't need to dissect it and make technical lessons out of it at this age. We just need to support kids in writing about the things that matter to them.
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