Best tips about getting a reluctant writer to write?

[LibraryLover]

Child is 9 and a girl and really needs some practice. She is developmentally normal, with good muscle tone, but oy, nothing wrt writing goes over well.

[Alisa]

I have an extremely reluctant writer. I was at a homeschool conference last spring and spent considerable time speaking with Sandy Larson who wrote "Ignite your Writing" curriculums. I find her curriculum to be extremely user friendly, unintimidating and so does my daughter. It has taken a few months but now we have no more tears. I have recently started giving her writing prompts and she has enjoyed that. (ex - You woke up this morning and found yourself in your favorite cartoon (movie, etc). What happened?) I have not pushed report writing or anything else. I just am trying to get her to write. You can look up Sandy's curriculum by googling the title and you can find writing prompts on line by googling "writing prompts". There is also a book by Karen Andreola (sp?) called Story Starters that I have heard good things about. Hope this helps!

[Jen3boys]

My reluctant writer enjoys writing (and mailing) letters to authors, and writing a family newsletter, and writing about his favorite hobbies.

[Cadam]

I made my reluctant writer write every. single. day. It was only about 5 sentences last year when he was 10 but it increased a little by the end of the year. My goal was to get him in the habit of writing. This year a paragraph is a pretty easy thing for him and we are expanding on both length and quality. Every time he wrote for school we revised as well. I think I said "All writing is rewriting" well over 100 times last year.

[Alte Veste Academy]

I love Bravewriter. The Writer's Jungle is an incredible resource, especially for those with a reluctant writer.

http://www.bravewriter.com/program/home-study-courses/the-writers-jungle/

Good luck!

Kristina

[joannqn]

My daughter was a reluctant writer and would technically answer a writing prompt with the least possible number of words possible.

The problem for her turned out that she hated handwriting. I let her have unlimited writing time on the computer (meaning computer play time is limited but writing stories in Word is unlimited) and that has solved our problem. Any writing assignments for school gets typed as well.

[LibraryLover]

Thank you all. I have some research to do!

[teacalm]

Model a sentence for your dd.

Explain a sentence begins with a capital letter, ends with a punctuation mark, and makes sense.

Have her write her own sentence.

Go over with her what she wrote - does it begin with a capital letter? Does it have an ending punctuation mark? Does it makes sense? Who or what the sentence is about? Explain this is the subject? What did the subject do? or "is" in the case of linking verb. This is the predicate.

Keep repeating until she gets it. Then you branch out into a simple paragraph. And I always tell my dd to write in her best handwriting. Or I use the sentence for dictation.

I got this method from momof7 and it works. Slow and steady wins the race.