My child hates writing - help!

Writing is a complex task that involves many separate skills: 

• Read other texts to collect information and learn about the topic. 
• Know the content and understand it enough to ‘talk’ it (explain it to someone else). 
• Sit still, hold the pencil and the paper. 
• Concentrate on many things at once. 
• Write legibly (so that they can read it). 
• Spell all the words (so that they can really say what they know). 
• Touch Type (to get their writing into a digital format).
• Grammar (to express ideas clearly).
• Punctuation (to make meaning clear).
• Paragraph Structure (to group sentences together in a useful and logical way).

Stop to consider the complexity of these skills and how we often expect children as young as 6 to do all of these at once! It is no wonder many children are writing resistant! 

Simply Homeschool includes many strategies to help your children develop these complex skills – and then we encourage you to offer to write for your child until they are ready to pull all of these skills together!