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[quote=Anonymous]This may be a weird thought, but it seems to me that you need to jar him out of his rigidity that he isn’t a good writer and hates it. Can you do something that shows him he loves it? Maybe take him to the beach and write a three word poem in the sand, life size letters. Don’t tell him why, just show him he wrote a poem. Does he text message with a grandparent? Have them start texting each other haikus. Maybe a letter to a hero, or to protest something?

My son has dyslexia and was seriously struggling in 2nd grade. He had been diagnosed, but hated reading and writing intensely. He wrote one poem for his poetry unit in class, and I entered it into a writing contest for dyslexic kids. He won, and the prize was a Zoom call with a dyslexic poet who talked about writing when writing is torture. My kid is in high school now, but the experience of winning a writing contest means he can’t say “I’m terrible at it” (he still does, but in his heart he knows he can do it, even if it’s torture).

Good luck! I know it is really hard.[/quote]

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