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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my kid's kindergarten class, on the free writing exercise on Mondays, there are kids whose parents have taught them three specific sentences and who have spent the weekend practicing those sentences.  It defeats the point of the exercise which is for kids to sound out words and try to write them down, to struggle a bit, etc.
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Wow. Are parents really doing this?  That is messed up. [/quote]

Would not surprise me.  I have a brother who has drilled his kids so much in writing:  "Write 5 sentences before you can play on vacation," etc., that I'm quite sure he's in danger of making them hate it.  I'm constantly amazed at what some parents will do to keep their kids from ever struggling to work anything out themselves.[/quote]

The two examples seem materially different. I personally require my kids from first grade on to do at least a few minutes (5-10) of writing several times a week unless they have a lot of homework, and most days in the summer, because I'm dissatisfied with how the school teaches writing. But I wouldn't prepare my kindergarten child's free writing sentences -- that defeats the entire point and it's at least somewhat dishonest.[/quote]

Do you require them to do 5-10 minutes of art as well?   I'm a writer and my husband is a writer and we would never force our kids to write anything.  It ain't math and forced practice is a very good way to give your kids hang-ups about writing, not make them better writers.  
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