A New Way Of Constructing A Sentence

Being able to write is important. It's important to me that the boys both come out of elementary school being able to construct a good sentence, paragraph and write a well thought-out paper with a beginning, middle and ending.

I realized when Shane was in third grade that he was struggling with writing after watching him sit for hours trying to write five sentences. So I met with the school reading resource teacher and asked her to work with Shane to help him through the hump. She pegged his learning style and personality the first time she met him and within three or four sessions, she had him straightened out.

He writes beautifully now.

So now we have Owen. Little Owen who struggles to write period. HiS WorDS aRe WritTen with No RhYmE or ReaSon as to wHen hE CapiTaliZes LetTeRs. He struggles with puncuation marks with his sentences frequently being run on and they run together.

This is a direct result of his vision problems and he's playing catch up still.

His writing is much improved. It's actually legible now. It looks like real writing. And he is getting much better with using capitalizations correctly. The spacing isn't an issue as much now either. Heusetoneverputspacesbetweenwordsaswell but thats not a problem anymore.

However, he recently got his interim and there was a note on there that he needed to work on capitalizations and when to use them and needed to work on punctuation.

I spoke with his teacher yesterday and she said that she spoke with him about it. She said that he was confused about when to start and stop a sentence and what he had decided was that a sentence should be seven words long.

So he would count seven words and then put a period.

Well, nothing like applying a mathematics formula to writing a sentence!

It's certainly an interesting way to construct a sentence. Never really thought about doing it that way!