Leaving notes to encourage writing in your homeschool is just one way to encourage reluctant writers. Children with autism tend to be just that given their difficulties with motor planning in addition to fine motor deficits. They tend to make negative episodic memories about writing. This makes them balk at
If there is a way to make homeschooling easier, I’m all ears. I like to write. It’s what I do. But I’m not a writing teacher. It’s no secret that I struggle in the area of teaching writing to my kids. I’m a blogger. It should be easy, right? I
Writing difficulties are standard for my 15 year old. It’s not the penmanship part; that he can do. It is the writing process that is so hard. The brain-to-pencil-to-paper process is laborious and time consuming for him. Trying to drag him through it is even worse for me. Let’s face it:
The first true test of a boy’s endurance isn’t hopping on one foot, balancing on a bicycle, or even outlasting his friends to see who can stay awake the longest at a sleepover. No, it is in pulling words from his brain, organizing them into coherence, and making them appear on paper. The process
You all know that I write. If I didn’t, there would be no TMK blog and you wouldn’t be here. When I decided to use Julie Bogart’s idea of Friday Freewrites, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I knew that when I was a kid I LOVED using writing
How easy it is for me to be sucked into a good book. A tale of fiction, wound with suspense and characters, strung word by careful word by the author…. Bliss. Nonfiction is not that way for me. It is difficult for me to maintain attention to. When I can
At the homeschool conference, I was able to attend a writing and language arts panel. Three moms shared their various favorite language arts curriculum ideas, and a few were discussed in depth. One of these is a program which I always wanted to use, but never took the big jump.