During the program, we set some time for children to write, too, after the name panel-making.
This summer (before new children join the program), we had a writing program. However, the essays children made were very simple overall. Thus, for those over junior-high school grades, this time our staffs guided each of them to write in more detail what they wrote earlier.
Suppose there is a child who wrote in a previous essay, "I like math." We ask the child first of all to write down what subjects he/she is studying at school, and then ask to continue that he likes math among those. Then, we further ask him/her to write down what they learn in the mathematics class (calculations, equations, figures, angles, etc.) and ask him/her to answer which problem the child is good at solving. Or if some children wrote "I like reading," in their previous essays, we ask them to list up titles of impressive stories they've read, to answer the most favorite one among them, and to describe the story and a scene that they like.
I don't mean this is the correct way to write. Because most of the children were not sure how to write in detail even if we asked them to "write in detail," we first asked them questions in order, let them answer those questions and let them put their thoughts together, and then asked them to write down those thoughts.
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