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[quote=Anonymous]Op, I could have written your post, except my son is in 7th grade, at a private school, and doesn’t have any diagnosed special needs (though we may evaluate him this year for adhd).  We are weekly getting notices from the school that our son has failed a quiz, missed handing in assignments, etc.   looks like he’ll be getting  Ds in all subjects except the one or two that he loves if he doesn’t shape up.  Honestly I’m hoping he gets all ds so he is motivated to shape up.  That said, we started doing exactly what you’re doing op.   I now work with him on all of the writing assignments for English and social studies.  My husband does language. He’s fine with math and science.   It was shocking how bad his understanding of how to write a sentence/ short essay is. Like, there’s no organizational structure, and the sentences are often written like he’s speaking to the reader.  But fortunately he has been very open to my help.  We go over what’s a topic sentence, the structure of the paragraph generally and I help him brainstorm each and every sentence.  We work on every single sentence together.  Goodness it’s a painful process (for me) but I’m hoping this is a temporary fix until he gets it.  Apparently the second issue is that none of this is getting through to him in the classroom setting.  Everything that I’m doing with him I’m sure the teacher has taught, but just hasn’t sunk in, in class.   That’s where the adhd component may be the missing piece.   [/quote]

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