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Writing OVERVIEW       ------------------------------------------ Kids Don't Write As Much Today -- So What?       Here's What, and It Isn't Pretty Seven Traits of Good Writing       Helping Your Child Have a Well-Balanced Approach WRITING INSTRUCTION       ------------------------------------------ Seven Traits of Good Writing Instruction       What a Good Teacher Needs to Effectively Model Written Communications Eight Ways to Improve Writing Instruction       Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Spell, Monkey Erase Error Correction       Good Writing is Precise, So Kids Need to Write It Right HANDWRITING       ------------------------------------------ Handwriting Needs a Hand       Penmanship Has Purpose, So Ask For It to Be Taught Right GRAMMAR, ETC.       ------------------------------------------ Getting Back to Grammar       Let's Open Kids' Eyes to the Logic of Our Language ASSESSMENT       ------------------------------------------ College Admissions Essays       You Don't Get Up to Speed On Them Overnight; It Takes Years WRITING DISABILITIES       ------------------------------------------ Mispronunciation Leads to Poor Writing       It's No Fiction: Good Diction Creates Good Writing Writing Instruction for At-Risk Students       A Focus on Good Attendance, a Little After-School Help . . . And Struggling Students Can Make Great Strides AT-HOME WRITING       ------------------------------------------ Play Time With Writing       Build Writing Practice Into a Child's Love of Play Pre-Writing Games For 5's and 6's       Kids on the Verge of Early Writing Benefit From a Boost When Spiral Notebooks Go On Sale       Give Your Child Plenty of Writing Room 022 The Parent Journal       Increasing the Communication Flow Between Parent and Child, and School and Home CONTROVERSIES       ------------------------------------------ How 'Cut and Paste' Schooling Hurts Writing Skills       Computer Technology May Be Harming Writing Ability SUCCESS STORIES       ------------------------------------------ Better Books, Better Writing Models       A Win-Win School Improvement Helps Both Reading and Writing SPELLING       ------------------------------------------ Brain Research: Implications For Spelling       What Do You Know? Kids Who Learn to Read With Phonics Are the Best Spellers Invented Spelling       If You Don't Know How to Spell a Word, You Don't Look It Up, You Just . . . Make It Up? Spell Check: Making Spelling Worse, Not Better       What Counts Is How They Spell When They're Off the Machine Strategies to Help a Poor Speller       Turning Around a Damaging Bad Habit to Create a Confident, Fluent Writer

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