Kids Writing Software

I have an eleven year old son who tests for the talented and gifted program at his school for both math and reading. He's a voracious book reader and loves facts. He's memorized information about science, airplanes, flight, sports, history and more. He reads well above his grade level and absorbs new material like a sponge. However, when it comes to writing, he will do absolutely anything and everything he can to get out of it. As a result, he could not keep up with the tasks in the accelerated classes. In fact, he barely passed his last grade and only summer school kept him from falling further behind.

Why is it that children who love to read hate to write? It's because the link between the two is not as simple as it sounds. Once we teach children to read, the mechanics of writing come into play and, often, this is the part that confuses many children.

If writing effectively were so easy, we'd all be authors. Obviously, that's not the case but we often think that moving from reading to writing will occur naturally. For some children it does. For others, the whole concept is quite foreign. Unless we break it down and really focus on the various tools used in effective writing, we won't be able to help kids write as well as they should.

Parts of Speech - Verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection

Forming Sentences - Combing a subject and predicate (a verb or verb phrase)

Word Choice - Expanding vocabulary and classifying words by parts of speech

Voice - Writing from perspective

Organization - Putting sentences together to accurately lead the reader through the idea or thought.

The rules for writing are so much more complex than for reading. Once you know how to read the word "cat", for example, you're done learning that word. Writing about a cat, however, can be tackled in so many different ways and requires planning, creativity, and sometimes even research.

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The Story Wizard - Creative Writing Software for Kids is designed to help kids develop better writing skills by guiding them through the writing process. Kids enjoy reading because it's fun. Reading takes them to new places with little effort. Writing requires a lot of thought and because of that, it leaves kids open to self-doubt and procrastination. They need practice, structure, and some guidelines to follow. It doesn't hurt if it's also fun. Remember, kids learn through play and learning doesn't have to be boring.

With Story Wizard, your child will be walked through the writing phase with the objective of creating their own book or story - including a cool book cover!

For more information on how Story Wizard's Software can help your kids improve their writing skills, follow the software image to visit Amazon's product description page.

I remember being in school, learning Calculus, and thinking, as many of us probably did, "I'll never need to know this when I'm an adult." Rest assured, that's not the case with writing. Including all of the things we type electronically today, think about the number of times a day you need to communicate in writing. Even lists of things to do are a form of communication; a note to yourself of things that need to be done.

Job applications, college applications, college papers, resumes, email and general correspondence are pathways to success. If you're child is unprepared to do these things well, they may not reach their full potential in school, much less in the job market.

According to the Nation's Report Card, the last national assessment of writing skills for 8th grade public school students, showed that 70% of our nation's 8th grade students in public schools were below the score of Proficient. Worse, that score had grown by only a slim margin from the previous report conducted in 2002.

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