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Don’t forget to register for January classes!

I know it’s Christmas and I know you, like me, are spending too much time in mall parking lots looking for a space. So it seems absurd to remind you to sign up for classes when you really need that one tube of vegan mascara for your college-aged daughter’s stocking, and that’s what is uppermost on your mind.

Still, January 5, 2009 is almost here. Some of our best classes start that day and you’ll want to be sure not to miss them as they don’t get offered every quarter.

Hand-Holders is a brand new Brave Writer class designed to help those of you who love the Brave Writer approach to writing, but still would like the feedback and support of an instructor. You’ll feel great at the end of the month knowing you helped your child write a piece worthy of praise and revealing progress.

One Thing: Grammar is designed to transform how you understand the role of grammar in language arts instruction. In fact, it’s safe to say that you’ll never look at grammar the same way again! In the usual surprise twist that is characteristic of Brave Writer instruction, you’ll discover how grammar is the glamor of language and writing.

Kidswrite Basic and Kidswrite Intermediate are two of our Brave Writer staples. Don’t miss these as you get back into the routine of writing in the winter!

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Today is Registration Day: Winter Classes

Hi everyone!

Registration is now live. Registration opens at 12:00 p.m. eastern. Classes often fill quickly. We have, however, increased the number of classes we offer so that as many of you can be enrolled as possible. We’ll post a note when a class closes.

To read about the classes, click here.

To register, click here. When it’s noon, the registration form will go live. Just refresh the screen until it pops up!

If you have any questions about what classes would be appropriate for your family, email us at help@bravewriter.com

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Winter Quarter Classes and New Website

Hi everyone!

We’ve got the new slate of winter quarter classes ready to post. They won’t be on the site until we launch the Brand New Brave Writer Website later this week. (I’m so excited to share it with you all, finally!!)

In the meantime, here’s the information you’ll need to start planning. Registration will be:

Monday, December 8, 2008
12:00 p.m. EST

Here’s the slate of classes:

Literary Analysis
January 12 – February 20 (Wuthering Heights)

SAT/ACT Essay
February 2 – February 27

One Thing Workshop: Grammar
January 5 – January 30

One Thing Workshop: Freewriting
February 16 – March 13

Passion for Fiction
January 12 – February 6

Just So Stories
February 23 – March 20

Kidswrite Intermediate
January 5 – February 13
February 16 – March 27

Kidswrite Basic
January 5 – February 13
February 2 to March 13

Hand-Holders (A follow-up to KWB for moms wanting more support; NEW~)
January 5 – January 30

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Teaching Language Arts Through Literature

Brave Writer

Brave Writer’s tailor-made Mechanics & Literature programs help you execute your best intentions with regard to:

  • grammar,
  • spelling,
  • punctuation
  • and writing mechanics.

These tools feature a quality work of fiction while highlighting passages that assist you in teaching these language arts elements to your kids in the context of real writing.

Real Writing

Sometimes I’m asked if these tools are sufficient for teaching grammar, in particular. What I’ve noticed over the years of home educating five kids myself as well as the thousands of students we’ve now taught through Brave Writer is that the best education for the mechanics of writing is reading real writing. Some parents complain, however, that their kids read a ton and aren’t making the connection between what they read and what they write. It worries them! And of course it does! These are your kids.

Our programs give you the ability to feature language arts elements in the context of great writing! Your kids naturally come to adopt the mechanics of writing in English through the soothing, repetitive practices of:

  • reading,
  • pondering,
  • and copywork.

The power of this methodology came clear to me when my then 14-year-old son, Liam, who struggled a lot with writing (has dysgraphia and was delayed in writing), suddenly blossomed. Copying passages from Redwall (his previous obsession) bore fruit! As he started writing his own reviews of novels he read, the flair to his natural writing voice, his “knack” for punctuation, and his spelling were startlingly accurate. Sure he had some run-on sentences and occasional fragments. We would address those later. But the heart of his writing was pure flair and personality, mixed with terrific spelling and a reasonable grasp of basic punctuation.

I did no formal teaching of grammar with him. I just continued to trust the process of:

  • reading aloud,
  • reading to self,
  • talking a lot about the novels and stories,
  • and then copying passages from them.

We haven’t even graduated to dictation yet! Still the results are impressive.


Take a look at Brave Writer’s Mechanics & Literature programs. Download the free samples and try them out. Then if you like them, feel free to purchase a yearly subscription or order Literature Singles based on the individual books you’re reading. You’ll be glad you did.


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Back issues are coming to a website near you :)

I am still working to upload all of the back issues of the Arrow, Boomerang and old Slingshots. They are coming along but I hit a snag yesterday and so we are not ready to click “Send” so that they upload to the site. Not to worry. I’m hopeful we’ll start rolling them out tomorrow with a goal of their being all up on the site by the weekend.

Crossing fingers!

In the meantime, we still have spaces in all the classes, except KWI is almost full. Kidswrite Basic (Session A), Expository Essay and Literary Analysis all begin on August 18 so don’t delay if you want your kids in these! One Thing: Nature Journaling begins on September 15.

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