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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's great you are trying to help your kid learn to write.  It is very hard to write well, even for adults, and I agree that MCPS in general is not good about teaching writing skills, and few teachers seem to give detailed feedback.  For writing books, you could try Step Up to Writing, which I know an excellent private school uses.  But I think writing is very hard for a parent to teach, even if the parent herself knows how to write.  For myself, I know that I both criticize too much, not knowing what is age appropriate, and also don't know how to actually teach the technique needed to fix the problem.  So I would recommend a writing tutor for the actual writing.  Grammar/vocabulary/spelling, on the other hand, I think is teachable.  I just googled free internet worksheets for grammar stuff when I wanted that. You could use various test prep books for vocabulary lists/spelling lists.  I think schools should be giving kids vocab lists, the private ones do, so if the public one isn't, I think it is time to supplement.  Also, I can get my kid to do a worksheet on grammar/vocab much easier than I could get him to write a paragraph for me, so that is where I would put my personal focus.[/quote]

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