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Reply to "Please help me teach my fourth grader how to write well."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than drilling and killing her, have her read whatever she's interested in. The more she enjoys reading, the better her writing will become. Really.[/quote] This was the entire theory behind Lucy Calkins Units of Study, and it has been proven repeatedly to [b]not work[/b] for most kids. Kids need to be explicitly taught writing as well as reading (and math, and science, and history). Exposure is good, but only in addition to direct instruction.[/quote]
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