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Let’s say your 6th grade 12-year-old child, of average to above average intelligence spelled the following words: bref (brief) susess (success) edcccate (educate) resolt (result) kicten (kitchen Then he wrote the following story to a picture prompt “Once a o […]
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Open-ended writing can be dreadfully difficult for school-struggling children. On so many levels, they find the task to be overwhelming. For those who are struggling, the more common classroom writing tasks that encourage the child to write as he/she feels […]
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Open-Ended writing is usually not difficult for children on the “smooth road,” the ones without the myriad of variables leading to school struggling. For the “Smooth-Roaders” their sentences are complete and varied in style. There is flow to their written […]
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This week my “Annoy-O-Meter,” which is usually running pretty high (like at a level of 70 out of 100), was up in the high 90s. What pushed it into the upper end of the dial was a run of girls […]
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In my office I sometimes feel like I am in an outpost of the galaxy. Messages come in periodically informing us of things going on in the schools, such as, “All the kids are now getting Chromebooks for writing.” Out […]