blackcat - just saw your response.
When my son is moved to write - which isn't all that often - he writes fluently. He's very articulate, too, both verbally and on paper. But he doesn't organize his thoughts/sentences on paper the way he apparently is supposed to at this point.
I just don't think he understands why so much has to be written about one idea. I think it's the layers of detail he pushes back on the most. And his teacher this year definitely wants more detail, more "sensory" details as it says on his paper.
He's very much into science fiction fantasy, and I've seen him write quite a bit if left to his own devices to make up a story. But if given a topic in school and asked to write several paragraphs, it's like his brain shuts down.
