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A Writing Tip for Twelfth Grade
Twelfth Grade: Teach tight, concise writing.
There are many conciseness techniques that will help your student write tighter, more readable prose. It can be especially difficult for flowery writers to be concise as they often think everything needs described in great detail. Grammar lessons in sentence structure is one easy way to teach more buttoned-up writing. This next tip explains this further…
A Writing Tip for Eleventh Grade
Eleventh Grade: Guide your student in editing his papers.
Editing papers is one of many students’ most hated tasks. However, if our kids are guided in how to do this from the early grades, it will not feel so overwhelming to them. This post has suggestions for teaching the high schooler (and junior high student) editing tricks that they can use right away…
A Writing Tip for Tenth Grade
Tenth Grade: Work on whatever type of writing is needed for your student next.
In high school, writing demands should be based, in part, on what the student needs at that time. I often have students who are writing for me in class as well as writing college entrance letters, SAT essays, contests projects, and more. If at all possible, we should focus on the type of writing that the student needs next. These tips explain this further..
A Writing Tip for Ninth Grade
Ninth Grade: Teach pre-writing skills that are needed for the type of writing your student is doing.
I cringe when I see a writing project that requires various skills without the lessons on those skills as well. (Check out our Meaningful Composition samples to see how skills should be taught with every writing lesson, especially involved skills such as quotations, dialogue, scene setting, researching, and citing sources.) This next tips explains this more fully…. Read more →
A Writing Tip for Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade: Teach various types of writing.
It is easy to get in a rut in teaching writing—and have students write the same types of writing over and over (often narrative or informational from a given source). This is especially true if your writing program focuses on one type only (as many of our second semester books do; that is why we recommend your student do one first semester book first before delving in to his favorite type of writing only). By eighth grade, we should be making sure that our students can write various types of writing well….
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