Strong writing skills in high school are essential to your teenager's future success.
Like most high school students, your teenager has probably mastered text messaging and chatting via instant messenger. Unfortunately those skills won't get your child very far in school—or on important college entrance exams and essays. With a personalized writing program from Sylvan, your high school student will master the following skills that will help him take on the toughest writing challeges, including the SAT* or ACT®, with confidence.
- Learn how to apply the writing process: Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
- Apply composition techniques to new and existing class writing assignments, especially the formulation of these critical aspects: Thesis statements, topic sentences, organized details and transitions
- Gain an understanding of different types of composition and essay assignments: Descriptive, illustrative, compare and contrast, cause and effect and persuasive writing
- Learn from a variety of text–based assignments: Analyzing long passages, outlining main ideas, writing summaries and understanding the requirements of a major research paper
Sylvan is the best choice for your high school writer.
- Our in-depth assessment helps us target the exact skills your elementary school student needs, so we can tailor a personalized writing program that delivers real results.
- Sylvan's writing programs work because your child will practice and master the same kind of writing that he is learning in school. Our personalized approach and guided practice results in a more confident child equipped with the skills to succeed, and the motivativation to achieve even better grades.
- We’ll measure your child's writing progress every step of the way, and won’t move forward until he has completely mastered each new writing skill.
- Our programs are research-based and adhere to the standards established by the National Council of Teachers of English.