This is all the other things you do in a month to bring a language rich environment to your family. The other large part of BW is the Brave Writer Lifestyle. I don’t use these, but basically they give you copywork and some grammar instruction, maybe discussion questions, all centered around a single read aloud book. A Faltering Ownership stage child does the majority of the writing and I’m a brainstorm partner, sounding board, and occasional scribe.Ī second part of Brave Writer is the Language Arts products like The Arrow and Boomerang. A Partnership Writing stage child takes short turns writing and I still scribe some, they illustrate. A Jot it Down stage child does oral narration and I scribe, they illustrate. I also have used a single book for a wide age range by adjusting my expectations for each child.

We tend to use them as a springboard – do a BW project or two, then do some writing projects that are spinoffs or my kids come up with, then go back to a BW project. You can take longer than a year with these. The project books (Jot it Down, Partnership Writing, Faltering Ownership) give you a year of month long writing projects with instructions, sample schedules, and ideas for tweaking those projects to fit children in the corresponding stages/general age ranges.

I reread it each summer, but it is not where I would start. You can create your own writing program with it, but it is not going to give you many ready to use assignments for your kids. The Writer’s Jungle is the theory course for mom. Now, in general, here is how I describe BW products: However there is also a big purple button that takes you to a download of 11 free samples – this is going to be really important so you can peek inside products.

As you scroll down you’ll see general age ranges for each stage (and a link to corresponding products if you want them). The best page to get your mind wrapped around some of this is the getting started page on Brave Writer.

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