15yr boy writting and grammer

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  • December 3, 2013 at 1:48 pm
    jill smith
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    Hi,

    I asked this wuestion once before and recieved great anwers but I am about ready to scream at this oint in my sons education. His writting and spelling for a 15 yr old is horrible. I have tried Our mothers tounge and easy grammer and he wont do IEW so where do I go from here. He needs a credit for high school. I am at a loss and not alot of income to work with for the real expensive books. Any suggestions? Am I the only one who is struggling with this at age 15? Thank you for your support!

    December 3, 2013 at 2:00 pm
    Rachel White
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    I just have some questions that may help work through this:

    Why do you think neither OMT nor EG worked? For how long did you try each?

    Also, neither of those are spelling programs, just grammar. What have you used for spelling?

    December 7, 2013 at 3:43 pm
    blue j
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    I also have a question.  Are you working with him through OMT or are you giving him the book and letting him go through it?

    December 7, 2013 at 4:03 pm
    mom
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    Hi, I just wanted ro pop in and tell you what I have started doing with my son who seems like he is in a similar situation as yours. He HATES writing and it is painful to watch. He is a perfectionist and very slow, yet the work he produces is far from the level he should be at. I have been reading Charlotte Masons original series and I have been inspired that CM really does work. We are not too late in the program for these boys either! But, we have to start with building blocks first…

    For the next few months, he will be reading (which is no problem for my son!) great literature and copying from the book passages that he found interesting. He will also be doing oral narrations, which I will type for him at this point. I will alternate this with setting the timer and having him write for 30 min about what he just read. Once the timer is off, he is done. I know eventually (by the end of the year possibly) we can try to do more formal writing lessons, but for now this has been working great! I have already seen improvement since I started last week.

    Writing is such an important skill and I think it is worth a focused effort to try to help my son succeed. Eventhough we are starting with the basics again, I think the learning should be faster since he is older.

    Hope that helps a little bit.

    December 7, 2013 at 4:04 pm
    mom
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    I forgot to mention my son will be 14 this month. Just fyi. 😉

    December 7, 2013 at 5:12 pm
    ServingwithJoy
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    What is meant by, “He will NOT do IEW”? Do you mean that he finds it unpleasant, or that he refuses to do something you have assigned to him? I am not an advocate of IEW, but I am trying to gauge the tone of the child. Does he refuse to do unpleasant or difficult tasks? If so, you need to go back a step with some character development and authority issues at the same time that you work on writing and grammar.

    My children are younger, but it seems to me that writing and grammar are just plain hard work, and that when they shirk it, they are really just shirking their responsibility in learning. That isn’t going to bode well for them long term – and that is a bigger issue than learning to write well.

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