The following discussion question was posted recently by author Gary Anderson on the new online companion blog to EMC's Expository Composition text, Discovering Your Voice.
Tips for Helping Struggling WritersStudents struggle with writing for many reasons. Can you offer a tip for dealing with a specific obstacle that has worked for you in helping a struggling student writer?
For example, I had a student who had no conception of what sentence means. He thought that a sentence was whatever was on one line of a piece of paper. So, I tried this. As he wrote, I asked him to make his periods way-big. Ginormously huge. My thought was that if he took the time to make a really big period, he would also be using that time to consider why he was putting it there. I only had this student for one semester, and he showed some progress during that time.
If you use this strategy, please let me know how it works for you. Thanks.
To comment or read tips from other teachers, visit the Discovering Your Voice blog at www.emcschool.net/expcompDYV. The blog also offers quotes from writers on writing, videos and images, and opportunities for students and teachers to post their writing and share ideas and comments with the writing community.
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