Get one-on-one tutoring designed to help students get the support and the tools for more clear, concise and logical writing. Students will utilize writing assignments from their regular English class as well as skill building activities provided by the instructor to enhance their writing skills in preparation for middle school English.

Get one-on-one tutoring designed to help students get the support and the tools for more clear, concise and logical writing. Students will utilize writing assignments from their regular English class as well as skill building activities provided by the instructor to enhance their writing skills in preparation for middle school English.

Students will learn how to:

1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 
5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. 
6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
7. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
8. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

*Topics in the following course adhere to the K-12/College and Career Readiness standards as presented on the Common Core State Standards website.