Getting Your Child in the Habit of Writing - An Important Skill
Just after 3 weeks of tutoring a primary school pupil in year 5, this young girl is now able to write a descriptive short story with minimal errors. Her mother hired me, for one to one tutoring to improve her daughters writing skills, which was a cause of concern for her. The first thing I did was to go through her previous written work and read her teacher's comments - which were usually a sad face or a neutral face. I'm always surprised to see that teachers don't correct pupils' mistakes. How on earth are they supposed to know they've not punctuated correctly or have spelt a word incorrectly? I fail to understand why some teachers can't give comments with some detail, highlighting the areas where they need improvement, so the parents have something to work on. After analysing her work, I made a list areas of improvements and started to work from there. There were many aspects which needed to be covered for instance the structure of a written piece, the us...