Try some sentence days at your house

I have yet to meet a child who doesn't benefit from writing practice. How about instituting Sentence Days at your house? Each day, declare a number of sentences that will be written. You can have One-Sentence Days and Two-Sentence Days for the very young, just-getting-started writers, and Ten-Sentence Days or even Twenty-Sentence Days for older students. Then sometime during the day, have everyone stop and write their sentences. You can offer a topic, like what happened during the day or describing a favorite TV show or video game, or you can let them have at and come up with their own topics. The point is just to keep them writing. And remember that while the Sentence Days can and should have different numbers to keep everyone guessing, it's important that the average number keep increasing gradually. We want the kids to become more fluent writers, and practice like this is a great way to do that.