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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a mom of a reluctant writer.  He has an avid reading with an incredible vocabulary.  He has hated writing since kindergarten.  He's now in middle school.  His private school has shied away from "teaching" writing.  Teachers assume writing will happen spontaneously. 
Reading and writing are different skill sets. Reading or watching is more passive consuming.  Just because I enjoy eating doesn't mean I know how to cook!  I've heard so many early childhood teachers say, "Love of reading is the most important thing for literacy and writing.  Have a lot of books lying around."  They mistakenly think teaching mechanics of writing somehow kills creativity.

Writing requires many executive functioning and cognitive skills that might need explicit teaching or support, depending on the students' learning style.  
If teachers don't have the time to give individualized instruction or feedback on sentence or paragraph composition, I agree with the value of writing tutors.  I also highly recommend Killgallon's Sentence Composing and Paragraph for Middle School, etc. There are different levels for elementary, middle, and high schools.

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I’m from MA and I feel like the schools do a better job with explicit writing instruction. They still teach grammar and spelling. I’ve been shocked my AAP students here are not that great at writing and don’t seem to know things I would expect students in MA to know by fourth unless they have a special need and struggled with learning writing from kindergarten on. They also still teach a handwriting curriculum with workbooks.

It seems many states are switching to believing that computers will help kids learn spelling and grammar, which makes no sense to me.

Yes I’ve tried teaching my students things I feel like they should learned years ago but then I was told to focus on the pacing guide and a lesson on capitalization was not on there. [/quote]

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