Things Many High School Students Don’t Know About English by Maria Gurevich.
I am very lucky to have worked with so many wonderful kids over the years. Some come to me for enrichment classes in elementary school and become good writers by high school. Some sign up closer to the end of high school to obtain grade 11 and 12 credits and prepare for the level of writing required by the university programs to which they aspire. These are all hard working kids whose writing skills have fallen behind due to lack of proper instructions, not a lack of effort on their part. Here are some topics I had to explain to grade 12 students over the past few weeks.
- How to use an apostrophe
- How to write a thesis statement
- How to outline an essay
- How to use quotation marks
- How to incorporate a quote
- The difference between details and examples
- What is meant by examples
- What a dependent clause means.
- How to reduce wordiness
- How to structure a paragraph
- When to start a new paragraph
In my enrichment classes I cover these topics early on to develop solid grammar and paragraph structure. As always, our team is happy to help with these or any other questions related to writing at any level.