.
Grading Essays Made Easy |Homeschool Life | Literature | Miscellaneous
Proofreading Tips | Writing Prompts
Writing/Teaching Tips | All
.
Want homeschool writing tips? Encouragement? Help grading those essays? Practical advice for your homeschool writing class? Insights into literature? Free writing prompts and tutorials?
Whether your student is reluctant or brimming with excitement, you’ll find solid, proven ideas here that will make your teaching life easier. And take advantage of the many writing prompts and tutorials posted here.
Subscribe to Writing with Sharon Watson and receive three FREE writing lessons. Just use the subscription form in the column to the right.
Be sure and browse the weekly writing prompts for middle schoolers and high schoolers.
This page may contain affiliate links..
What Failures Will You Turn into Successes This Year?
Welcome to a new year!
A new year is time for new plans, new goals, and new ideas.
It is also a time for second chances.
So, let’s talk about failures.
Failures?
Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph (forerunner of the record player), the light bulb, and the movie camera, was told in school that he was “too stupid to learn anything.”
Walt Disney, according to the newspaper editor who fired him, (more…)
How to Develop an Almost Painless Reading List for Teens and Tweens
Do you hear that thunder? It’s the crash of schoolbooks all over the country slamming shut for the summer.
As a parent, you want your children to continue using their reading skills. You know there are so many wonderful books they would enjoy reading now that it is summer and the distractions are fewer. Treasures await them. Do you have a plan to make it happen?
If not, you can use mine.
Use a Topic or Theme
A summer reading list is more fun for your tweens and teens if it’s (more…)
Poppies on Memorial Day
On Memorial Day in America, we remember and honor those in the armed services who have given their lives in the line of duty.
Poppies are often given out on Memorial Day as a symbol of those fallen men and women. This tradition comes from the first lines of the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Lieutenant Colonel John McRae, who wrote it during World War I and was remembering his fallen friends now buried in fields far from home. (more…)
Memorial Day Writing Prompt
The United States celebrates Memorial Day, a day to remember the men and women in the armed services who have given their lives for our country.
The late General Colin Powell wrote of the granite Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D. C., “At no other battle monument are people so moved, stenciling names and leaving gifts like combat boots, uniforms, sonograms, even a (more…)
