As I’ve said before, I’ve been homeschooling my kids for a long time now. Some subjects are fun to teach to them, and some are not. For the short

Writing is a visual language

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2024-10-31 03:30:09

As I’ve said before, I’ve been homeschooling my kids for a long time now. Some subjects are fun to teach to them, and some are not. For the short time my older son was in public school (first grade), he was being taught writing in the way that seems fairly typical for public schools: he would be assigned some topic to write about, and given a length requirement (whether minimum or maximum or both) and told to write. In my experience, this way of teaching writing is frustrating for a lot of kids and a lot of them don’t ever “get it”.1 My son found this task nigh impossible, and I found it baffling how he found it impossible when he could talk for hours and hours, very fluently, about the proposed topic. He clearly had thoughts about it, so what was preventing him from being able to write them down?

I’m going to use a recent viral tweet thread as a jumping off point to summarize here what I’ve learned about teaching kids to write.

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