Teaching Tips

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The most effective way to teach writing!

The process of writing is one of the most important English skills your student needs to learn. Developing vocabulary, improving word usage, and writing colorfully are skills that are learned and practiced via creative writing. The ability to write detailed, properly formatted, and organized papers is learned through writing book reports, essays, and research reports. Additionally, your student must learn the proper components of each type of writing and must execute them logically with an excellent presentation of ideas or information.

Types of teaching to avoid!

Teaching your student to write by a piecemeal process or jumping around and not connecting skills does not work. Flitting from composition type to composition type day after day, week after week, or month after month does not work. Teaching your student to write with only one lesson does not work. Teaching your student to write for a short period, but then not teaching writing lessons again for several more months, does not work and will not produce a good writer either!

Methods for teaching writing successfully

Think of how writing is a little like learning how to play an instrument. If you stick to one type of instrument and practice, improve, and learn; practice, improve, and learn; practice, improve, and learn until you master the skills, you will master that instrument!

Writing, like learning to play a musical instrument, needs a focused and carefully guided, prolonged effort in order to produce a competent skill. This is a basic foundational truth for learning how to write well.

All of our WRITING courses teach by using a step-by-step approach over a prolonged period of time. We discourage jumping around in our books, and we teach first with grammar as a support to writing. Using our courses, your student will learn how to write well in CREATIVE WRITING, BOOK REPORTS, ESSAYS AND RESEARCH REPORTS, and LAB REPORTS. Each one is a workbook, with editing and grading instructions that you can easily follow.

EXTRA TIPS
1. For each writing session, provide your student with a quiet, clean, clutter-free space on which to work.
2. Give your student good writing implements, erasers, and fresh paper.
3. Have handy a dictionary, thesaurus, and age-appropriate grammar books.
4. For younger students always provide the following information for each writing assignment: the topic, type of composition, as well as number of words, sentences, and paragraphs required.
5. For older students always provide the following information for each writing assignment: spacing, font size, and number of pages required.
6. Teach your student to edit on his/her own through a gradual process where you give more responsibility away as your student matures in writing.
7. Use the editing time to reteach grammar skills by explaining the grammar rules that have been broken. Don't just tell your student what should have been done, or the rules will never be learned, and you will perpetually have to remind your student of those rules.