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[quote=Anonymous]DD is a sixth grader in MCPS.  She went to a W cluster elementary school.  She received all ESs and Ps is writing in 4th and 5th grades.  However, she has never learned how to write an essay.  Now she is in middle school, and the teachers in various subjects have been regularly assigning HW essays.  DD is constantly in tears because she can't get started, and when she does finally get something down, I look at it and have a lot of comments because she is disorganized in her thoughts and she has many spelling and grammar mistakes.  It is not as simple as saying that I should "stay out of it and let the teacher do the commenting," because when I do that, the teachers simply give a lower grade without constructive comments or suggestions on how to better organize the essay the next time (MCPS is all about the "grading rubric" - so DD will see where she lost points, but won't know how to do that differently the next time). She never has learned the basics on how to organize an outline before writing, how to structure an essay, etc.

Any tips for a website or book I can have DD read for basic essay instruction? When I try to help, she gets very frustrated and isn't open to my suggestions.[/quote]

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