The Great Conversation: This is your older teen getting ready for college writing. Transition to Ownership Stage: Your child is not a really strong writer and you have transitioned more to the editor role. Your child still needs your help and support, but less so than the other stages. You work together.įaltering Ownership Stage: Spurts of success and then struggles in the same minute. Partnership Writing Stage: A partnership with your child. You transcribe for them and jot down their “writings.” The Jot it Down Stage: Your young sweetie has tons of fabulous stories and thoughts. The Brave Writer stages of writing look like this: And the way explained here made so much more sense to me. When I started reading The Writer’s Jungle though, I realized there’s more than one way to teach writing. If my kids wrote something that had great grammar, it would be totally bland–not the vibrant things I knew they could write.Īnd if they wrote those colorful pieces of writing, it would have no capital letters, no punctuation, nada.īut I felt horrible correcting something they were so proud of!įinding that balance of well-written, creative writing projects just felt too far-fetched. One thing that I found difficult in teaching my kids writing was finding that balance of having good mechanics (spelling, grammar, format) and creativity. I can’t wait to show you what we’ve been doing this year! If you are looking for a fun and easy-to-use writing program with your elementary kids, read on! We moved up to the next level, Partnership Writing, this year and it has been so much fun!
Last year, we started using the Jot it Down program and it was really great. The first writing curriculum that has ever gotten me excited about teaching writing to my kids was from Brave Writer.
We would always journal each morning too, but we never did anything specifically for writing. I had my kids write about people we were studying in history or write letters when I thought about it. So I’d box it back up or slowly back away from the exhibit table before the salesperson had a chance to make eye contact.īasically, for seven years I did my own thing. I just couldn’t bring myself to spend my hard earned money on sheets of sleeping pills for my kids. It’s just that… man, every time I’d buy something or find something at an exhibit hall, I would practically fall asleep on the spot.
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