Writing

Remedial writing sessions

Students work one-on-one with experienced writing teachers to become skillful in producing many different types of writing, including story writing, book reports, projects, essays, and research papers.

Some of the topics that your child will learn include:

• Generating ideas
• The process of writing paragraphs
• Achieving coherence
• Improving writing by revising for consistency, sentence variety, and language awarenesse
• Preparing for interviews and a written response to questions
• Developing descriptive, illustrative, narrative, contrast and comparison, persuasive paragraphs, and more
• The process of writing essays
• Reviewing the basics: simple sentences, conjunctions, adverbs, avoiding sentence errors, present and past tense, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, apostrophes, commas, and mechanics
  
• Spelling and vocabulary

Learning (Cursive) Handwriting

Why should students learn to write in cursive in the age of tablets and smart phones? While electronic devices have added an element of convenience to the writing process, evidence is mounting that putting pen to paper has benefits that typing cannot replace. Researchers have found ties between writing by hand and everything from language skills to memory to critical thinking.

At Strategic Learning Clinic, we help students learn cursive because of the numerous mental, physical, and practical benefits it confers. Cursive handwriting stimulates the brain and is linked to improved neural connections, increased writing speed, improved fine motor skills, improved legibility, increased retention, and more.

For more information on our writing, handwriting, and/or cursive handwriting program, contact 514-966-1553 or info@strategiclearning.ca.