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[quote=Anonymous]My 6th grader went from papers with many misspelled words, run-ons and sentence fragments everywhere, jumbled and sometimes incoherent ideas, poor verb tense and number agreement, and all of those other issues at the beginning of the year to writing a pretty solid, coherent, grammatically correct 5 paragraph essay now.  The solution was an outside enrichment class that uses the Michael Clay Thompson curriculum.

I can't comment on any other school systems, but FCPS is a huge mess with writing instruction.  It's bad enough that they don't teach grammar, but the real travesty is that they emphasize volume over quality and give very little feedback.  None of my kids' teachers have ever circled spelling or grammar errors, or have written comments to help tighten up the writing.  For the most part, they just get a rubric sheet with numbers 1-4 circled in different categories, but without much direct feedback needed to improve.  The kids write so much every single day, but very little of it is graded or given any feedback at all.  They only very rarely are doing a first draft -> editing -> final draft approach to their writing.  When kids don't receive the corrections that they need, their bad writing habits and poor spelling become ingrained and much harder to correct.

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