| Online Class: Building Children's Writing Skills | Building Children's Writing Skills is a hands-on class that will nurture many types of writing skills. Whether your child is just starting to put pen to paper or is an experienced writer, the assignments are flexible enough to meet his/her needs. Students will receive 2 to 3 exercises each week to develop and build writing skills. Each activity will focus on an important writing skill, like fluency, structure, mechanics, paragraphing, or sentence development. Parents can choose to subscribe to receive the weekly assignments and check them on their own or can choose to turn in the assignments for feedback and suggestions. Subscriptions to this service run for four weeks at a time, and participants can re-enroll for as many sessions as they wish. The goal of this course is to assist parents in nurturing writing skills by providing regular practice activities. *IF* the exercises are done faithfully, students should develop increased fluency, improved mechanics, and better organization in their writing.
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish.
An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools
to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service
that manages all your course completions.
This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.
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1.0 CEUs |
Course Description Special Offer!
$30.00 - $25.00
(only for a limited time) Attention Students: Special Discount! Save $5.00 on this class by enrolling right now!Enter this Promotional Code -- special -- when you enroll and you will only have to pay $25.00 for the course fee! That's a $5.00 savings. This is a limited time offer only, and will not be available after today, or after the enrollment quota is reached.
Is your child struggling to put pencil to paper? How well can he or she write reports for school work? Written expression is such an important skill that we need to be POSTIVE that kids are learning to write competently. You can help! This class offers helpful information about how the writing process develops, and lots of exercises to boost skills. Expand vocabulary, improve sentence structure, and develop organizational skills using the convenience of email. See you soon! 3 different exercises are available each week to develop and build writing skills. There is also an assortment of extra exercises to do if you feel like more work is needed. In addition, there are 6 lessons for parents/adults to use for discovering how writing develops. Many of these also contain optional exercises for children. Each activity will focus on an important writing skill, like fluency, structure, mechanics, paragraphing, or sentence development. Exercises are new each week, and are available at several levels of difficulty. Parents may choose to receive feedback on children's work from an experienced teacher/tutor or critique the child's work themselves. Those who do not wish feedback can use the promotional code 1000 to enroll for the reduced rate of $10 and will be offered exercises to use or print out for four weeks (total of 12 exercises). Remember, children under 13 must enroll with a parent. Let's get started! Together, we can build your child's writing skills! | | |
Building Children's Writing Skills is a hands-on class that will nurture many types of writing skills. Whether your child is just starting to put pen to paper or is an experienced writer, the assignments are flexible enough to meet his/her needs. Students will receive 2 to 3 exercises each week to develop and build writing skills. Each activity will focus on an important writing skill, like fluency, structure, mechanics, paragraphing, or sentence development. Parents can choose to subscribe to receive the weekly assignments and check them on their own or can choose to turn in the assignments for feedback and suggestions. Subscriptions to this service run for four weeks at a time, and participants can re-enroll for as many sessions as they wish. The goal of this course is to assist parents in nurturing writing skills by providing regular practice activities. *IF* the exercises are done faithfully, students should develop increased fluency, improved mechanics, and better organization in their writing. Instructor Sandy Fleming has one year of substitute teaching experience, six years classroom experience, and 20 years as a private tutor serving all ages/specializing in serving special needs students and troubled readers. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education/Mild Mental Retardation, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, OH 1980 and a
Master's Degree in Education: Mental Retardation, all levels, Learning Disabilities, Indiana University at South Bend, 1986. She teaches two other reading courses for UniversalClass.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Course Lessons Optional Certificates Awarded - Certificate of Attendance
- Certificate of Class Participation
- Certificate of Appreciation
- Certificate of Merit
- Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
- Certificate of Academic Excellence
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official.
To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service.
Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers
to verify your achievement).
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