Writing Classes for middle and high school students

Writing I: Applied Grammar (grades 6-10)

Does your child need writing skills beyond emojis and LOL?  Grammar is the first step to writing for school.

This class meets for 10 weeks onTuesdays at The Reading Center from 3:45-5:15pm

Course dates are: Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4. 

Course Description: The secret to brilliant writing is applying grammar! Come learn how to fashion phrases, structure sentences, and produce paragraphs, using eight treasured tools. In this course, students will learn to polish their writing by applying grammar, learning sentence structures and combining them. Finally, they will assemble a well-written paragraph.

Writing II: Academic Writing (grades 7-11)

Does your child have great ideas but difficulty with school writing assignments? If your student has taken a writing class with us before, they are ready to take this next course!

This class meets for 10 weeks on Fridays at The Reading Center from 3:45-5:15pm

Course dates are: Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 30, Dec. 7, 14. There is no class the week of Thanksgiving.

Course Description: In this course the student will learn strategies for academic summarization.  The highest level of comprehension is to summarize what one has read. Using a variety of graphic organizers, the student will learn to identify organizational patterns of text and use the organizers to write a summary in their own words. Then, using the writing process, they will refine their pieces, applying grammar to their composition with specific nouns, vivid verbs and helpful descriptors.

Prerequisite: Applied Grammar or previous Reading Center Writing Class is a prerequisite to this course. You may take a pretest to see if you can test into this course.

Other Details for All Classes:

• Full payment for classes is due at the time of registration online, or within one weeks if paying by mail, to keep your student's place in the class.  If you wish to set up a payment plan, please contact our bookkeeper, Gade Grinnell at 507-288-5271.
• Partial scholarships are available for qualified families on a first-come, first-served basis. See our website for a scholarship application.
• Each child requires a separate registration, and will receive a separate confirmation email.
• The Reading Center reserves the right to cancel (and refund tution) for classes if not enough registrations are received.
• Please review our class withdrawal policy here.