How to Teach Writing Skills to Older Kids
A writer is a person who writes about stuff. In order to write about stuff, you have to know stuff and do stuff. That sounds really basic and juvenile, but it is the reason why I am against writing programs for children under twelve years old. Most of the writing prompts for younger children aren’t very exciting and they know it. But we do need to know how to teach writing skills to teenagers. A teenager has more to say than, “I did this and then I did this.” A lot of journal prompts for younger kids ask for those …
