Evaluating Writing is the parents' manual for all of the Writing Strands books. I am often asked by homeschooling parents, "How do I evaluate my children's writing?" This is not an easy question for me to answer because I find evaluation challenging, even after 30 years of evaluating children's writing and talking to them about it. There are some things that children do need that I am sure you can give them. They need to feel good about what they do. This is just like you and me. We need this, too, and we're adults. This is one of the very good reasons that so many parents are homeschooling. Their kids weren't feeling good about what they were learning (or not learning) in school.