Tag: reluctant

6 Mistakes We Make Teaching Reluctant Writers

by Merry | Feb 12, 2014 | Academics | 0 |

When I was 7, I wrote a story that my mom liked so well, she submitted it to Cricket magazine for publication. Yes, I received my first rejection letter in second grade! But that memory lingered with me and gave me a false impression of what’s “normal” for second grade!

Reluctant Writers

by Merry | Feb 4, 2014 | Academics | 0 |

You know if you have one. You can’t coax ’em out of the closet when it’s writing time. They’d rather eat fried worms than put pencil to paper. And why is it that there are few things we moms worry about more (academically speaking) than this little thing we call writing?