Language Arts Stack

[Lisa Westbrook]

>
>   So I got a program called Start Write that lets you make up your own
>   sentences with the little dots for kids to go over.
>



                     Please explain.  Is it the same StartWrite  
program that I found on the web that teaches penmanship?

Mark,

Yes, it is.  I just love that you can make up sentences beyond the  
Zippy variety (the possibilities are endless).....
Just an example though, not to be compared in any way with Runtime.


                     At the moment, doing something like that in Rev  
seems to be beyond my skill.


That's how I feel, and you are oceans beyond me in Rev skill level!  
One idea that could work is to list three or four different options  
for an author's quote and get the student to pick the one they think  
the author really wrote.   The idea being, if they can recognize good  
writing, they may very likely improve their writing.  And they are  
likely to remember some of the more thoughtful passages.  I remember  
reading in Franklin's autobiography that he used to copy passages  
from the paper and rewrite them until he could make them better. I  
realize that's more than you were up for at the present!  But it  
doesn't hurt to think of version 1 through 5 when you've gotten  
version 1 so close to the product level.

Cheers!

Lisa