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[quote=Anonymous]I used to be a middle school English teacher, and I provide feedback on my daughter's work sometimes (she's in 7th.) There's always a balance between her being welcoming and her wanting to slink away. But I have found parent feedback to be very useful. I went to a highly rated private school in the 80s, and while they did provide some instruction on how to write essays, it was really my parents who taught me by giving feedback on my work ("that's....not really a topic sentence for this paragraph." "You need to explain that example more." Etc.)

So I would say share feedback to the extent that you can. It's not like you're trying to get higher grades for your kids; you want them to write well. And after a few years, they'll probably be better at it.

I even find it fun with my kid. Sometimes, we look back at the text together and she has a head-smack moment about missing the point of it, and then her essay gets better. You should decide what's highest priority for you, mechanics or content, and go from there. You can't attack on all fronts every time, but you can teach a meaningful lesson every few weeks.

You can also say, "Look, I think there are things they're not teaching you in school, and I want you to express yourself in writing as well as you do when I talk to you. We're going to devote an hour each weekend to reading something short and doing a long-answer question about it, and at the end of __ weeks, we'll celebrate by _____ (kid decides motivating reward.)" Commonlit and NewsELA are two websites that have great texts and discussion questions to write answers to. You can enlist your kid in choosing which texts they want to look into.

I hope it works out for you, OP! [/quote]

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