SO, WHEN ARE KIDS READY TO START WRITING ESSAYS? I posted this on the Facebook Robinson Curriculum Group Page, but realized it fits in our group nicely: OK…so…I’m not the standard person out there, so these are MY thoughts. Basically, I accept that...
Why You Shouldn’t Teach Writing Like Math It’s pretty simple. Math is learned by understanding a mathematical concept/principle and working problems that apply the principles. The working on these problems gives feedback and depth to making sense of the...
HOW DO YOU WORK WITH DYSLEXIA? You may not know it, but Jody (and most of her family) has struggled with dyslexia. Nonetheless, she also made straight A’s in her Masters program (Education). That certainly helped us believe a different kind of homeschool writing...
WHEN ARE KIDS READY TO START WRITING ESSAYS? I posted this on the The Writing Course Group Page (FaceBook), but realized it should be a post here too: OK…so…I’m not the standard person out there, so these are my thoughts. Basically, I accept that the...
Teaching Homeschoolers to Write Well – Takes Less Than 10 Minutes a Day! A guest blog post by Dr. Fred Ray Lybrand for Homeschool.com Homeschool educators only make one consistent and glaring mistake: They Compare Their Results to Schools. I realize we...
Rudolf Flesch once observed that language may be the only truly democratic thing on the planet. What he meant is pretty straightforward; what becomes the common grammar does so because of usage. In other words, we ‘vote’ on what proper grammar is, based on...
How to Help Your Students Get Over Being Defensive About Their Writing? When we try to teach kids how to write, you and I have both seen it dozens of times. We simply offer some helpful advice (or worse yet, we point out a mistake) and our child goes ballistic...
It’s true in learning to write because it is true in life. Maybe what you don’t like happening is your fault. Maybe you are encouraging the wrong things in your life. Success is clearly about communication, and we communicate in many subtle ways. It may...
I received this letter a while back and wanted to share it here: I’ve been using the Writing Course for over a year now with my 15yo. I’m wondering if I should go through it with my 10yo yet or not. How did you determine at what age your children were...
