So if anyone else is wanting more fun writing projects, these worked well for us. I have two more of these posts coming up. They have mostly gone really well so I thought I’d share what we did. Sometimes something comes up organically in schooling such as a contest or a way to tie writing in with another subject, but we really enjoyed having preplanned projects for writing that were their own thing so I wanted to continue that with more writing projects, which meant picking out interesting things to do. But, alas and alack! We ran out of projects! But no big deal. Or sometimes we begin with lots of structure from me to get them going and they do their own revisions and changes.Īll this is great and I’ve blogged about some of our Partnership Writing projects previously, such as secret codes or personal timelines. For us, this often looks like kids writing a rough draft by themselves but then I type it up and take oral narration for revisions. During the partnership stage, kids are able to write some but still need a lot of handholding to get things done.

Instead of expecting kids to be at a certain place at a certain age, the idea is that kids progress through these stages at their own pace, though typically kids Mushroom and BalletBoy’s age – 10 years old – are at the partnership stage. Writing stages are also a big part of the Brave Writer concept. Doing one writing project a month is part of the Brave Writer philosophy so this outlines ten projects. It’s a short curriculum that explains the Brave Writer philosophy and the partnership stage of writing then gives a year worth of monthlong writing projects to do. This has been one of our favorite Brave Writer products and I highly recommend it as a way in for families who want to try some of the elements of Brave Writer. We especially loved doing the projects in Partnership Writing from Brave Writer. While we do use some other resources, it’s been the heart of our writing approach for a little while now.

Most readers of this blog will know that I’m a Brave Writer fanatic.

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