RE: Teaching Writing, Organization and Thinking Skills

[Guest guest]

I am looking for a book/method to teach writing. S is

8. This year we did First Language Lessons for

grammar. And some narrative writing. But her writing

is disorganized and I need a method to help her

develop basic writing skills. I bought Language

Strands 2 but am not happy with that.

Also, if you know workbooks or websites for working on

orgnization or thinking skills, please recommend.

Natalia (thinking about moving to Houston)

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[Guest guest]

" Writing Without Tears " is the program that we used and it is available for

printing and cursive. I have heard many " professionals " advise that cursive

writing is actually easier to learn because it has less stop and starting as

with printing. My son's cursive writing is much better than his printing. You

can find the " Writing Without Tears " program on the web and the supplies are

very inexpensive to order.

Good Luck.

Lori

Natalia Tegler wrote:

I am looking for a book/method to teach writing. S is

8. This year we did First Language Lessons for

grammar. And some narrative writing. But her writing

is disorganized and I need a method to help her

develop basic writing skills. I bought Language

Strands 2 but am not happy with that.

Also, if you know workbooks or websites for working on

orgnization or thinking skills, please recommend.

Natalia (thinking about moving to Houston)

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[Guest guest]

You may want to post your question on this site:

http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/teacherslounge/

Good luck.

PS. I have used copywork with great success for my son.

I have been having him copy a page of sentences at a time

from books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,

Charlotte's Web, Pan and others to get the 'feel' for

how to put a good sentence together. I was orginally doing

it for the mechanical writing practice, but over time I've

realized that the style of writing has really helpful.

Also, during the school year, we were doing a narrative

a week on one of the Five in a Row books. We'd read it

the first four days and do a lesson, then on the fifth day

do the narrative. I noticed that over the year my son went

from really needing a lot of help (about 50%) forming

sentences to being able to do the majority by himself.

Re: Teaching Writing, Organization and

Thinking Skills

I am looking for a book/method to teach writing. S is

8. This year we did First Language Lessons for

grammar. And some narrative writing. But her writing

is disorganized and I need a method to help her

develop basic writing skills. I bought Language

Strands 2 but am not happy with that.

Also, if you know workbooks or websites for working on

orgnization or thinking skills, please recommend.

Natalia (thinking about moving to Houston)

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