The First Method for Nurturing Gifted Children: Teaching Them to Write Essays

Author: Chu Jin
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: "Don’t Fear Writing Essays" (Comprehensive Edition, Improvement Edition, and Advanced Edition) is a masterpiece that collects the most representative content of "Chu Jin’s Happy Writing Teaching Method." With a series of breakthrough writing secrets, it breaks through genres and grade levels, revolutionizing the old routines of domestic essay teaching over decades. It focuses on cultivating students’ thinking, observation, experience, and reading analysis skills, emphasizing that "the key lies outside the poem" and "the key lies outside class." What sets this series apart is its avoidance of teaching rigid writing theories. Readers feel as if they are entering Chu Jin’s happy writing classroom, where both teachers and students shed all constraints, effortlessly and naturally entering a writing state. This approach makes students surprisingly enjoy writing essays, viewing it as easy as running or cycling—something they can learn quickly. Every student can achieve miracles in the classroom. Those who feared, disliked, or struggled with writing essays can produce well-structured essays in just 30 minutes during the first or second class, unlocking their full potential.
Since its release, "Don’t Fear Writing Essays" has been reprinted multiple times, gaining widespread popularity among experts, students, parents, and teachers. It has consistently topped the educational book rankings in various bookstores. In early 2003, Chu Jin’s book signing session at Beijing Book Distribution Building set a historical record for the building, while the simultaneous "Don’t Fear Writing Essays" series lectures created a sensation in Beijing and many other parts of the country. Many parents and teachers have requested Chu Jin to elaborate on his writing teaching and coaching methods tailored to their needs, further interpreting the secrets of his happy writing teaching from an adult perspective. In response to repeated invitations from the publisher, Chu Jin has finally presented this new work, revealing for the first time without reservation the specific classroom teaching designs and processes of this method to all fellow educators and parents, explaining the underlying principles in detail. We hope it will serve as timely rain for parents guiding their children in writing essays, as well as for school and private tutoring teachers. Let us work together to transform the current state of essay teaching in China, so that all teachers no longer fear teaching essays, and all students no longer fear writing essays.
This book is suitable for reference and use by middle and primary school parents and teachers, as well as for self-study by upper elementary and middle school students.