SPECIAL REPLAY | While Writing isn’t exactly a soft skill, it is an invaluable hard skill that makes a feedback loop with the soft skills. Andrew Pudewa of IEW fame offers several tips to encourage this skill in crazy homeschooling times.

• The top two things needed for your kids are; Language Skills (liberal arts), and Math skills (Logic/Stem/Arithmetic)
  
  • Choose what is interesting, but also needed.
    
  
  
• Teach your kids how to memorize
  
  • Especially poetry, this will teach them diction, and heavily ingrain a love for language and reading, which in turn will give them a love for learning.
    
  
  
• The 4 deadly errors of teaching writing:
  
  • Over correction
    
  • With holding help- if your child asks for it when writing, they probably need it.
    
  • Unclear Assignments- Your child cannot follow instructions they don’t understand. Be clear.
    
  • Over expectation- set a high bar, but be willing to give grace for learners.
    
  
  

Resources from IEW

https://iew.com/

• TWSS
  
• Language Acquisition Through Poetry
  
• Themed Based Writing Books
  
  • Ancient History
    
  • Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales
    
  • People and Places
    
  • All things fun and fascination
    
  
  
• With all of the resources in the world of homeschooling today, you can get the best of both worlds of Public School and Homeschool
  

True North Homeschool Academy Resources

https://truenorthhomeschoolacademy.com/product-category/english/

• British Literature
  
• ‘Dinner with Shakespeare and Dickens’
  
• Literature through the movies
  

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