July 22, 20160Comments

Myth: Grammar Study Makes Your Child a Better Writer

In a recent conversation about grammar and writing, I made the following point. Hope it is helpful.Often I hear it posed that ‘grammar study is useful’— and, the reason they

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June 24, 20161Comments

You Can’t Test Creative Writing

Now even the UK is up-in-arms about the inadequacy of using standardized tests to access writing skills. Here are a couple of quotes from an article: Head teachers fear some pupils

May 29, 20160Comments

Write First, Learn Grammar Later…seriously

I picked up the following comment from a forum related to a homeschool curriculum we use. If you skip to the bottom (my response), you see a simple reason to start

by Fred Ray Lybrand