The ease with which school writing assignments came to me is equal to the difficulty that some of my students experience with them.
They are simply too overwhelming.
With these students, I sit and work with them through every step of the process, from prewriting to proofreading. They do the work, I simply help them organize. What they need is not to feel they have to climb the mountain alone.
One of the most amazing articles I’ve read and referred to repeatedly on the subject is from the PBS Misunderstood Minds Website, a companion to their eponymous television special.
It lays out, with extraordinary clarity, many of the issues that face students who struggle with writing. You see so much on the Internet and sometimes you don’t print or save it quickly enough. I lost this one, once. I’m so glad I’ve found it again.
https://www.pbs.org/wg…/misunderstoodminds/writingdiffs.html