symphony
03-14-2012, 04:50 PM
Could you good people recommend some small literary pieces like essays/short stories/articles that are rich enough in language and also interesting enough to keep teenagers from zoning out?
I'm tutoring a 9th grader in English, among other things. She is not much into reading, which in turn is making her a poor writer. She is not very familiar with formal writings, and performs poorly in any kind of creative writing exercises (problems like: incomplete sentences, poor structure, poor vocabulary, unfocused writing...). She doesn’t even read books of Twilight/Vampire Diaries level because they look like entire books, so when I say small- I mean really small!
I’ve always loved language and literature, and was a natural reader back in school. Now that I'm in university and quite rusty on reading myself, I’m finding it hard to make the language interesting for my student. LitNet is the only place I could think of for ideas. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
I'm tutoring a 9th grader in English, among other things. She is not much into reading, which in turn is making her a poor writer. She is not very familiar with formal writings, and performs poorly in any kind of creative writing exercises (problems like: incomplete sentences, poor structure, poor vocabulary, unfocused writing...). She doesn’t even read books of Twilight/Vampire Diaries level because they look like entire books, so when I say small- I mean really small!
I’ve always loved language and literature, and was a natural reader back in school. Now that I'm in university and quite rusty on reading myself, I’m finding it hard to make the language interesting for my student. LitNet is the only place I could think of for ideas. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)