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How Do I Know Which Writing Course to Choose?
We have courses for elementary, middle and high school at multiple skill levels. If you are unsure which course you should choose, look at the writing samples below. If your child’s writing looks like any of these samples, click the “suggested course 
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If you are still unsure which course you should choose, after looking at our placement chart, select the course you think is right and add a note in the “comments to the teacher” section, during signup, about making sure the child has been placed in the proper course.
Most importantly, don’t forget that you have two weeks from the start of the course in which to change to a course better suited for your child. This change could be requested by you or suggested by the teacher.
Does your child’s writing look like this? |
Suggested Course | The Challenge |
joey smith; january; new york |
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Capitalize proper nouns |
susan needs a new |
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Sentence fragment |
Susan runs every day to school to see her friends talking in the morning on the basketball court all about other friends and homework clothes at the mall dancing in the gym teachers get angry. |
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Run-on sentence |
Susan run every day. |
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Subject – Verb Agreement |
The boy’s all love to play. The berry’s are ripe. Bushs are being planted in the garden. |
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Noun plurals |
The childrens’ toys were donated by the charity group. My parent’s wedding photo is a beautiful remembrance. |
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Noun plurals and possessives nouns |
Where are you. Watch out? |
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End punctuation |
Tommy is a great student Billy doesn’t do well in school. |
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Forming compound sentences |
Tommy is a poor student, and doesn’t care. |
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Punctuating compound sentences |
Tommy is tall has brown hair has blue eyes and has freckles. |
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Using commas in a series |
I love playing. Dolls are cute. It is fun. |
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Paragraph structure |
Dolls are fun. They are cute. They are good. They are sweet. |
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Sentence variety |
I love dolls and video games and coloring books. All fun! |
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Paragraph focus |
Does this describe your child? |
Suggested Course | The Challenge |
Your child goes off on tangents when asked to write about a specific topic. |
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Essay focus and finding a thesis |
Your child has problems getting started when given an essay topic. |
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Essay planning |
Your child has a hard time deciding upon a point of view |
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Finding essay voice |
Writing descriptively using a variety of verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and figurative language |
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Descriptive writing in narratives |
Your child has mastered the basic expository and narrative essay without any grammatical or usage errors. |
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Ready to branch out to a variety of writing styles. |
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