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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't leave it up to chance, OP. FCPS is HORRIBLE at teaching writing, horrible. Writing is a skill like any other that should be taught consistently and with discipline. Sure there are some natural writers who emerge from FCPS but overall the writing instruction and the results are abominable especially compared to other subjects that are taught relatively well. I recommend one of the numerous homeschool programs. Which one depends on your kid, though.

For my oldest, who was an extremely reluctant writer and needed to be taught in an organized structured way, IEW was a great program. I then moved him on to some classical writing programs and he learned to write with style and is truly outstanding now (I am a college professor and can judge compared to very strong college students). He was a huge reader, by the way, and the whole organic just-encourage-reading approach is ridiculously insufficient. He needed instruction and practice like with any other skill. With another kid, who was much stronger to start out, I went straight to the classical writing instruction and he is decent now. I was trying to meet him where he was and we probably should have backed up a half step (not worth it now, but it shows).

I have heard Brave Writer is a good homeschool program for kids who start out as more natural writers. I don't have personal experience though.

You are right to think about this, OP. Learning how to write can be fun and should start in elementary school. I can't tell you how many parents moan about this FCPS weakness when kids are in high school.[/quote]

Thank you for the recommendations! I recently bought a few books that cover how to form a proper argument and build sentence structure. We've been discussing the lessons together (no writing yet!), and I have to admit it's been a very positive experience. He actually looks forward to it! Since your oldest had such a similar profile to my son, I'm definitely going to look into the IEW program.[/quote]

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