All Kids Can Learn School believes that writing, as a language art is a vital form of expression and
communication that will be required extensively as students attend high school and college. Writing practice is similar to the mastery of a musical instrument. Without daily practice and emphasis of
learned techniques, one will not become adept in performance.
All Kids Can Learn School has a set of goals that we will help your child to reach: To become a confident, thoughtful reader, and expressive and versatile writer; to have various writing experiences
through the composition of responses; to daily journal writing; and to review and reinforce spelling, vocabulary, grammar in order to support growth as a reader and writer.
Our mission is for students to be able to demonstrate confidence through their writing, so they may compose clear, concise, stylistic pieces of writing, which illuminate purpose, and intelligence. We
will help your child become proficient in all their writing endeavors. Our most important goal is for our students to be proud of what they write!
Focus Points
1) Basic Writing Skills (for all grades)
A) Vocabulary/Word choice skills
B) Writing Process
C) Sentence Structure
D) Compare and Contrast
E) Imagery
2) Narrative (grades 3-8)
A) Descriptive Story
B) Auto Biography
C) Fictional Stories
D) Personal Narrative
3) Explanatory/Informative (grades 3, 5, 7, 9)
A) How to
B) Nonfiction Report (science, math, history)
C) Compare and Contrast
4) Argument/Persuasive (grades 6-9)
A) Personal Opinion
B) Persuasive Writing
5) (grades 7-9)
A) Literary Essays
B) Speech Writing (personal and persuasive)
New York State Writing Requirement for each
grade
Kindergarten-argument (opinion), information/explorative, narrative
Grade 1-informative/explorative, narrative
Grade 2-argument (opinion), narrative
Grade 3-informative/explorative, narrative
Grade 4-argument (opinion), narrative
Grade 5-informative/explanatory, narrative
Grade 6-argument, arguments
Grade 7-argument, informative/explanatory
Grade 8- informative/explanatory, narrative
Grade 9-argument, informative/explanatory
Writing Program Overview
In this writing program, students will compose a variety of pieces. As they work on these pieces, they will
receive support to assist them in further developing and improving their writing on a number of different traits. These traits include: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence
fluency, conventions, and presentation.
The format of each writing class
1.Outlining
2.Prewriting
3.Writing
4.Rewrite/editing
Wednesdays or Thursdays 11 writing classes study plan
Descriptive 2 classes
Narrative 2 classes
Persuasive 2 classes
Argumentative 2 classes
Informative 2 classes
Literary response 1 classes
NYS ELA Writing
Short Response 3 classes
Extended Response/essay 8 classes
Wednesdays AND Thursdays 22 writing classes study plan
Descriptive 3 classes
Narrative 3 classes
Persuasive 4 classes
Argumentative 4 classes
Informative 4 classes
Literary response 4 classes
NYS ELA Writing
Short Response 6 classes
Extended Response/essay 16 classes
All writing classes are taught by the NYS licensed teachers with specific teaching writing experience.
Fees
Weekday Writing Class (Wednesdays and Thursdays)
October 7 to Dec 24, 2015
January 3 to March 31,2016
22 classes 44 hours
All writing classes are conducted with 1:6 (teacher to student ratio)
One Payment Two Installments
Wednesday class: $960 $500x2
Thursday class $960 $500x2
Wednesday and Thursday classes $1,600
Additional fee of $10/day for homework help, Weekday 3PM to 4PM
$100 discount (full year registration with both weekday and Saturday writing classes) for students who received level 4 on NYS ELA test.
What
to bring to class:
A three-ringed binder
Five sharpened pencils
A pack of loose leaf paper
All writing classes are taught by the NYS licensed teachers with specific teaching writing experience.