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Reply to "Please help me teach my fourth grader how to write well."
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[quote=Anonymous]One important aspect of becoming a better writer is having lots of opportunities to do it. The limited time and assignments in school won't cut it. If your child is willing to try writing in a journal, that's one avenue. I'd also suggest you start creating a "family scrapbook"--print out pictures of recent events and have them write a paragraph or more explaining what happened. At the 4th grade age, challenges include simple sentences, repeated sentence structure, and limited details. Many kids who work on more complex sentences end up jumbling them so the syntax is off. Having them write, edit, and read their pieces aloud to go through drafts before putting a final copy in the scrapbook is great practice.[/quote]
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