Writing With Ease
An Integration of Skills
We Strengthen:
- Sentence Structuring
- Paragraph Writing
- Organization
- Spelling
- Grammar and Syntax
- Editing
- Expository Writing & Creative Writing
To write well, you have to read well, spell well, have a clear understanding of what you are writing about, and be able to clearly communicate that understanding. The Reading Clinic's writing program fuses the elements in our other programs to help students develop and strengthen comprehension, verbal expression, organization and structure. Because there is a wide variety of strengths and weaknesses in the students who enroll in this program, one-to-one application is critical in working toward a student's best writing.
Like our other programs, students begin at a level where they have success and then build on that success. First, a student demonstrates the ability to read and comprehend written material and to conceptually image their understanding. Then, step by step, students move into list writing, constructing sentences in a variety of forms, note taking, and paragraph writing.
At the same time, students discover the structure of sentences in the elements of grammar and syntax. They become aware of the writing process, how to approach it on a step-by-step basis, and how to monitor progress and make necessary adjustments as they edit their work.
As they begin to evolve as independent writers, our students move from single paragraphs to longer and more complex pieces. Looking at this accumulated evidence of their achievements, they see they have the ability to conceptualize, organize and execute written work independently.