Describe a time you accomplished a difficult task with the help of a partner.
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Training Tip: Out of the Ordinary
Blend writing instruction and scientific curiosity!
Are homemade volcanoes, paper airplanes, and animal behavior your kind of thing? Want to become a better writer while finding out how the flu spreads or what it takes to make a high-speed train go faster?
Brave Writer’s Skip into Science class is popular with kids who are less about writing and more about
- exploring,
- analyzing,
- and experimenting.
Writing gets tossed into the bargain.
Our Skip into Science class…
- introduces students to formatted writing. Students pick from a variety of interesting project types.
- allows your kids to choose topics of interest. This choice fuels a sense of ownership over their work.
- keeps writing assignments short and manageable. We make sure we’re catching your child’s best moments—no burnout, breakdowns, or boredom!
- offers plenty of support! Our writing coaches are masters of affirming, helpful feedback that your children want to receive.
- cultivates writer’s voice. Students reveal their quirky interesting personalities in their writing for powerful connection to the reader.
- ignites their love for learning. Academia is based on inquiry and curiosity—and it’s FUN!
Inspired to Write
Through the unique use of writing mechanics, informative illustrations, vivid storytelling, and a good dose of humor, Jemma (age 9) brings her characters to life in an epic adventure to save the kingdom from a HUGE, hungry dragon.
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Jemma’s inspiration?
The book, How to Train Your Dragon, and Brave Writer’s accompanying Arrow mechanics and literature guide!
How to Save Your Kingdom
by Jemma
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The How to Train Your Dragon Arrow highlights “Punctuation and Writing Mechanics as Style” and provides insights into the power these elements lend to writing.
All Arrows foster inquiry and curiosity about how writers use punctuation, grammar, and spelling, as a means to engage readers—not to simply have “correct” writing.
Arrows provide easy-to-understand notes to help parents and their children explore writing mechanics and writers’ craft through the published works of established authors. Over time, children apply these writing tools to original writing, as Jemma has shown in her engaging story.
Thank you for sharing your epic story with us, Jemma! We wish you many days of brave writing ahead!
Tea with Julie
Julie here. I miss you. I miss connecting with you via email.
With a brand as rocking as Brave Writer with endless tools, classes, and resources to promote, it feels a little nervy to tell you about another email you could receive from me.
Yet what I want to do is write to you, not just market our amazing offerings.
I thought it over with my team and realized that I wanted to share with you my favorite stuff—the writings I’ve done over the years that have made the biggest impact on our community. These writings will come once per week as essays to your inbox to make it easy to digest them.
Sound good?
And so: we’re launching a brand new email list (it requires your consent, so be sure to sign up if it appeals to you).
I’m calling it “Tea with Julie.”
Each email will come on Saturday morning and will be a letter to you about a variety of topics (usually in a series of 4-5 emails over 4-5 weeks). These emails are free (no fee to join).
Topics include:
- Writing, in general
- Revision, more specifically
- Self care
- Parenting
- Being an awesome adult
- Forces of enchantment
- Brave Writer Lifestyle
…and so on.
My goal is to give you the benefit of the thousands of pages of material I’ve written over the last twenty years in an essay length format, personalized for 2020. You are free to read them, save them, share them, file them, or discard them.
The “Tea with Julie” emails are not primarily marketing driven (we may occasionally let you know about something important on the calendar, but you can expect them to be mostly marketing-free).
To sign up, you must “opt in” using this landing page.
Sign Up for Tea with Julie
You can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any email. Feel free to manage your email preferences with us using that button at any time.
Brave Writer is 20 years old, and I’ve got lots to share with you. I’m excited to talk to you personally via email this year.
Emails will be sent every Saturday.
Can’t wait to curl up with my favorite tea (PG Tips) and a pair of shortbread cookies while writing to you. I recommend similar for reading the emails.
Friday Freewrite: Sincerity
Imagine a close friend hurts your feelings. When you tell her, she apologizes but doesn’t seem sincere (genuine or truthful). How would you respond? Would you forgive her? What if it were reversed and your friend didn’t believe you were sincere? Explain.
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