Teaching Your Kid to Write….
I am a teacher by trade just like Becky Bilby except she is homeschooling and I…I have not gained the nerve for that yet. She discusses some of the pitfalls of trying to teach writing even when writing is your forte’. I personally don’t think reading or writing is my forte’ and well….that’s what scares me straight out of homeschooling for right now.
Becky discusses Atwell’s Lessons that Change Writers which is a curriculum that seems pricey but she seems to think it will carry through years of lessons. And, since she has worked with the same group of homeschoolers and it works well for them in the group setting…so, she seems to be rather impressed.
If you would like to read more, you can find her at Blissfully Domestic’s Homeschooling site or on her personal blog, And Chloe Makes 6 or In the Pages.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am
My dad is a writer/editor, so that probably helped more than I realize in my writing ability. But, honestly, I think most of it is my love of word play and hours of practice that I’ve put into writing more than anything else.
And with homeschooling, even if you’re not proficient in a particular subject, teaching it to your children gives you another opportunity to tackle it. From what I’ve heard, you learn more than your kids do by homeschooling… and that’s a very cool thing. [smile]
~Luke