The ability to write confidently is an important skill that children need throughout their primary and secondary school education. However, many children leave school without the ability to do this, with as much as 25% of primary and secondary school aged children leaving school with no literacy skills at all.
Over the years, I have noticed that many children don’t know how to write appropriately – in a structural sense. There are often:
- Missing fullstops at the end of their sentence.
- No capitalisation at the beginning of sentences, or of proper nouns.
- Lots of grammatical errors, too.
- Many spelling mistakes.
And many children don’t like reading through their work, either, because English is often a subject that they do not enjoy. Does this sound familiar?