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avatar Anonymous

i need advice on how to help my daughters writing make sense when answering questions

my daughter has a hard time answering questions in writing. she cant get the thoughts organized and it up just being alot of this and that but no actual answer. she jumbles thoughts and cant seem to stick to the topic.she'll read the information but then cant seem to put it into sentence form that makes sense. she has a report due and we spent hours trying to get just one paragraph. any exercise she can do that would help. she has always had faster thoughts than her hand could keep up with.

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avatarLizInHolt
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Top 5 in: Career Training, Choosing College, Depression and Mental Health, Discipline, Families and Relationships, Health and Wellness, Home Learning and Field Trips, Learning Disabilities and Special Needs, Learning Styles, Manners and Values, Parenting Support, Parents and Schools, Safety, School Policy and Education Issues, Setting Goals and Getting Motivated, Study Skills and Academics, Transitions and Readiness, Students' Civil RightsTop 5 in 18 Topics		 You could set up time for you and your daughter to meet with her teacher to get some extra help in how to organize her thoughts. Outlining can be a big help to put thoughts down without writing it out completely yet. If she is better at expressing herself in words, maybe tape recording her thoughts and then writing her answers out from that would help her "hear" herself and organize what should be written down and what should be left out.
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avatarJenny.eduguide
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Top 5 in: Discipline, Families and Relationships, Family Activities, Financial Aid for College, Growth and Development, Health and Wellness, Parenting Support, Parents and Schools, School Policy and Education Issues, Study Skills and Academics, Transitions and Readiness, Study Skills and Academic StrategiesTop 5 in 12 Topics		 It sounds like your daughter might need some extra help when it comes to putting her thoughts down on paper. Have you ever had her tested for a learning disability? Perhaps she isn't getting the attention she needs in a regular classroom. Catching something like now can often lead to a much happier child who is way more likely to work hard when she knows it is actually going to reap some real rewards. Don't watch her struggle when there is help out there for her. I know my daughter has always needed more help with math than I could ever give her. That's when we need to rely on the resources available to us from the schools. Good luck.

I also noticed that you posted your question on the students' advice section. It's really no big deal, but please use parents' advice next time. Thanks.

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