DS has some difficulties sitting down and writing in class. He had an essay type homework this week, the first extended piece of writing he has been asked to do this year. He could pretty much choose any topic he liked.
He wanted to use my laptop for this and I agreed. I showed him how to use spell check and word count and he was getting on famously, and easily managed a few hundred words.
I thought it would be a good idea to consolidate this and suggested that if he managed 1,000 words he might get a Lego reward. He saw this as a worthy challenge and easily managed it on a history subject he liked. He also copied his work out neatly into his homework book (I guess it was good handwriting practice).
His teachers seem to have been hugely impressed by this. Is it very unusual? Have I demanded too much? (I haven't got much idea how much they'd expect kids this age to write).
Or it might just be the contrast between how little he writes in class left to get on with it himself, perhaps? He does need a lot of encouragement/ chivvying/ consoling when he can't think what to write.
I'd be interested in any advice re supporting him also. My husband was a bit disapproving of the erm incentives.
Maybe trying to get him to write letters to fave authors/ Blue Peter/ Lego etc would be good.