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Does your child have spelling problems?

Published on May 31, 2011 By admin

If your child has spelling problems and his writing is full of mistakes, it’s usually for one or more of these reasons: He is not hearing and breaking up the words into their sound chunks He is not familiar with many general spelling patterns He is not applying his knowledge of spelling while writing   [...]

Improving writing: 7-12 year olds

Published on May 8, 2011 By admin

Before you can help a child with writing problems, you need to assess his writing in a rational way. Look at several different first drafts because these will give you the most useful information for improving writing. Final drafts are likely to have had input from other sources. There are 5 questions to ask yourself [...]