

Throughout traditional schooling – public or private – the system makes writing a chore, something you have to do.

But it will help you understand how the writing process can develop ideally from childhood to adolescence, from a professional writer’s point-of-view. Then I happened across Julie’s book at Barnes & Noble the other day. We’re are using The Arrow in combination with other aspects of the Brave Writer lifestyle, such as Poetry Tea. Brave Writer adds an element to the teaching of mechanics: appreciating an author's craft in writing (literary elements). Grade 2 Language Arts: Brave Writer’s The Arrow English Brave Writer, grade 2, The Arrow Lucinda C and I had so much fun – and learned so much (yes, me too) – this week doing an exercise from Brave Writer’s The Arrow. A few years ago, I decided to step away from the University Model school my daughter attended and brave homeschooling all on my own. If you buy nothing else, the Writer’s Jungle is a must if you want to use Brave Writer for the long run, and to get the overall road map and philosophy for helping your child become a good writer. It does it through the LA programs that you see, if you look at the bundles, they include three parts: the Writer’s Jungle (this is the manual for parents on how to teach), the writing program (includes 10 writing projects to do throughout the year) and the LA (mechanics like grammar and punctuation). We jumped right in with the activities in month 1 – Word Collecting and Building. It places strong emphasis on literary elements – elements which “make writing pop”. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. I have a creative 5th grade daughter who loves to write, a 2nd grade boy who definitely hasn’t discovered a joy for it yet, and a kindergartener who is just learning to read and write. Inside: Brave Writer reviews can be extremely polarized and confusing.


If you’re looking for a traditional and systematic language arts program, you probably aren’t going to love Brave Writer. She listens to me read-aloud almost every day, reads physical books to herself and her brothers, listens to audiobooks constantly, and writes for her own projects and purposes on an almost daily basis.
