Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Struggling Writer A student in Mrs. Young's class is struggling to write. She is a kindergarten students who is low in English proficiency, however her peers that are at the same proficiency are advancing while she is not. She can read the sight words, "I, like, play, to" but cannot write the sentence "I like to play". She has been receiving interventions of fine motor skills but still doesn't seem to get it. Any suggestions on what to do next? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) For kindergarten who has low English proficiency. I would allow them to draw the story, explain to me and I dictate for them what they are saying. Another way would be to have sentence frames with pictures to help the student make those connections between written language and visual pictures. The student could also read passages with those sight words and highlight the words in the passage and a draw a picture to match the story to determine if they understand what the story was about.