Writing Tips for Kids Who Hate to Write
Does your child hate to write? Is it a struggle to get him to put a pencil to paper? Watch as Jules Csillag, M.S., a licensed speech-language pathologist and teacher of students with speech...
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Lots of kids hate to write, and I feel like I've actually heard teachers talking about writing being something sort of tricky to teach. People tend to think it's not really teachable, but it totally is. I think like with reading, we have to redefine what writing looks like. If you're reading a book and at the end you want to summarize it, sure you can write an essay, but you could also do some sort of, like a visual collage, or make a movie poster, if it's like a narrative book. So those are types of, I would argue, writing, because they're an expression of your understanding or they're expression of yourself. But they're not necessarily like, writing by hand. The other thing I'm a strong advocate of is assistive technology. S...
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Lots of kids hate to write, and I feel like I've actually heard teachers talking about writing being something sort of tricky to teach. People tend to think it's not really teachable, but it totally is. I think like with reading, we have to redefine what writing looks like. If you're reading a book and at the end you want to summarize it, sure you can write an essay, but you could also do some sort of, like a visual collage, or make a movie poster, if it's like a narrative book. So those are types of, I would argue, writing, because they're an expression of your understanding or they're expression of yourself. But they're not necessarily like, writing by hand. The other thing I'm a strong advocate of is assistive technology. S...
