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Planning Jam Session: Week One

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Need help using Brave Writer’s Mechanics & Literature guides? Watch the recorded live below and plan your first week with Dawn Smith!

Also, before watching, you might open your current Dart, Arrow, Boomerang, or Slingshot and:

  • Print the “Our Week With” planner (see guide or Guidelines) 
  • Print the Skills Tracker (see guide or Guidelines) 
  • Prep the guide you are using by printing or having the PDF open to review
  • Open the Guidelines PDF for reference. 

Next, simply hit play and get started!

Resources

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Turn Living Literature into Unit Studies

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Brave Writer’s Literature Singles are more than grammar guides—they are literary treasure boxes filled with ideas to expand a novel into an engaging unit study for the whole family.

Read a book, talk about its grammar, punctuation, spelling, and literary devices. Discuss the stories with comprehension questions and then throw a party to celebrate!

Want inspiration for unit study planning?

Check out the curated themed collections below to see how you can mix and match levels to meet the needs of your family. We share resources from our Poetry Teatime website (FREE!) and our Brave Learner Home membership community to give you some ideas.

Slide into Baseball

Combine with

Step into History (Black History edition)

Combine with

Step into History (Spies edition) 

Combine with

Slip Under the Sea

Combine with

Space Out

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Inventions & Inventors

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Planning Tool

We’ve also put together a spreadsheet tool that helps you see all of our literature singles at once. You can sort by historical era, literary device, author, and more!

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2024-2025 Book Reveal!

Brave Writer Book Reveal 2024-2025

Are you getting excited?!

Each year, I announce the line ups for our wildly popular literature programs!

For the Quill (ages 5-7), I reveal themes you’ll explore while building foundational pre-literacy skills in reading, writing, and math.

For the Dart (ages 8-10), Arrow (ages 11-12), Boomerang (ages 13-14), and Slingshot (ages 15-18), I give updates and announce the book titles for the coming academic year!

Book Reveal Dates!

Click the links to register for the Zoom webinars (space limited).

For kids ages 5-10: Thursday, May 30 (12:00 pm EDT)
For kids ages 11-18: Friday, May 31 (12:00 pm EDT)

(Or watch on Facebook.)

When you register, you’ll be entered for a chance to win one of our fantastic GIVEAWAYS!

SIX FAMILIES will win:

  1. A gift card to purchase ALL the books for the year-long program of your choice
  2. A bundle of enchanted tools for writing—markers, pretty papers, sidewalk chalk and more!*

You don’t have to attend the webinars live to be eligible to win, but you do have to register! So be sure you add your name to the webinar registration for at least one of the days.

*International customers will receive one gift card that covers costs for both books and tools for writing!

Come live! The chat will be FLYING!!

Use this PDF Download to keep track of the book titles during the lives.

The Programs

Our Mechanics & Literature programs teach:

  • grammar,
  • punctuation,
  • literary devices,
  • and more through living literature!

The big reveal is also exciting for you because these are:

  • books your family will read aloud together and treasure all year 
  • books that naturally teach all the stuff you worry about! (See above!)

Selecting the Books

Here at Brave Writer, we take the selection of these book titles Very Seriously!

All year, we read, discuss, and delight in the year’s latest fiction as well as relishing the classics.

  • We aim for diversity of authorship and protagonists
  • We incorporate a variety of genres: fantasy, poetry, nonfiction, historical fiction and the classics
  • We carefully orchestrate the sequence of the books
  • We balance book length against the holiday demands of a given month
  • We alternate moving, poignant books with silly, lighthearted books
  • We launch the year with a sure-fire winner and end with a warmhearted one

By the time we’ve settled on a book list, we’re chomping at the bit to share it with you!

You can expect a lively, inspired reading journey.

Our 2023–2024 year-long programs are still in the store! 
After May 27, they will only be available as Literature Singles! 

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