Writing is a highly complex executive process; the impact of which on academics is often underestimated. Apart from the process of generating creative ideas, there are very specific cognitive abilities that allow a student to ‘produce’ a written narrative. Effective writing skills are expected to emerge in assignments where the teacher asks student to analyze character traits, identify themes, incorporate key events in the plot, introduce conflict and establish a point of view. Each grade level teacher steps up the expectations from her students in order to evaluate writing.

This program will focus on fundamental elements of writing using executive approach of planning, sequencing and problem solving. The main focus would be to hone on working memory skills, developing knowledge of structural elements of written language by fine-tuning the word order as well as word selection process (syntax and semantics of language). Finally the process of generating topic structures that highlight use of written templates will be introduced.