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No More; "The dog ate my homework." excuses,

but A+ all the way!

Helping With Writing is a sequential programme divided into five sections each containing an introductory Mini Movie, a Lesson and seven worksheets. Follow them in the order that they are presented so that your child can build their writing skills step by step. I recommend they do one worksheet per day to build a strong foundation and gradually develop their skills.

Click on the Mini Movie Parent Workshop below to provide you with support and ideas on how to help your child.

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Follow the Helping With Writing Five Step Programme
1. Sentence Structure
First Watch the Mini Movie on Sentence Structure
  Next Read the Lesson
  Last Print 1 Worksheet per day
2. Collective Nouns
First Watch the Mini Movie on Collective Nouns
  Next Read the Lesson on Collective Nouns
    Last Print the Worksheet
3. Noun Openers
First Watch the Mini Movie on Noun Openers
  Next Read the Lesson on Noun Openers
  Last Print 1 Worksheet per day
4. Preposition Openers
First Watch the Mini Movie on Prepositions
  Next Read the Lesson on Preposition
  Last Print Worksheet
5. Verb Openers
First Watch the Mini Movie on Verb Openers
  Next Read the Lesson
  Last Print the Worksheet

 

Student Writing Examples
View childrens' writing examples here after they completed the Helping With Writing Programme.

 

Helping With Writing Programme
15 minutes a day can improve your child's writing. You may want to sit with your child to guide them and to get them started. Then check over their work with them once they have completed the worksheets.

 

Mini Movie Parent Workshop
Start at the Mini Movie Parent Workshop to help you to help your child through the essential concepts of expressive story writing. It will provide you with parent advice on how to help your child best tackle each lesson and how to help your child do the worksheets.

 

The pen is mightier than the sword!

So,let's get writing!

Home Page
Click the Links to Start the Beginning of Sensational Sentence Structure.

Lessons to guide your child to write their famous last words simple lessons to support you in helping your child with the writing exercises.

Lists

and lists

and lists

of English Grammar.

Recommended Reading on every Worksheet will build your child's literacy skills and enhance their creative writing so that you never have to read between the lines searching for comprehension again.
Students' Writing Examples inspires one to write. These young authors followed the Helping With Writing progam and penned perfect pieces. The samples clearly demonstrate the results of how well your child can apply the exercises to their own writing.

Hit the nail on the head with Invigorating Verbs! More lessons to teach you to add adventure to your action.

Check out the Answers and Rubrics to help you and your child monitor their progress.

Notebook Notations reinforces your child's writing skills. Have your child write the lists of words learned in each lesson and encourage them to write their own sentences and stories using these words build their vocabulary and to improve their writing.

Position your Prepositions Perfectly so that they sit nicely beside their subject. Workable Worksheets weave wonderful works of writing.
Proofreading Power puts the punch into your writing. Have your child re-read their work to check for mistakes. Poignant Punctuation to make ends meet..and beginnings and middles of all your child's writing flow. Punctuation keeps your writing perfectly presentable.

Literacy Worksheets work wonders to help your child develop proper English Grammar skills.

No Nonsense Nouns teaches your child person, place and object.
Definitely Definitions provide you with more information.

 

Sentence Structure lessons will help you to guide your child on how to write a sentence with correct English Grammar and punctuation.

Sentence Openers will help you to support your child in opening a can of worms wriggling with refreshing ideas to use in their everyday writing. They will learn how to change their basic sentence structure to enhance their writing by using verbs as openers, collective nouns as openers, prepositions as openers and nouns as openers.

Please send your child's writing to me as I do so enjoy a good read. Thank you, Tessie :)

PS Check out the Student Writing Examples to further help you understand the direction

Helping With Writing is taking you in.

Tessie's tips on writing...provides you with further writing support and study ideas. Have your child work at a pace that is comfortable for them. If they are getting frustrated, they will not be learning to their full potential. Take your time while working together through the literacy lessons. Also have your child keep a notebook. Many suggestions are given as to what to write in the notebook to help your child master English Grammar.

 

The Helping With Writing webmaster has been learning how to Teach for over Twenty Nine Years! How old is she? 21 of course. ;)

 

Here are some Links to further develop your child's Literacy Skills.
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/bestof/topsites.cgi?withwriting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/whatisasentence/tutor.shtml
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