In Brave Writer, we separate the ideas of revision and editing. Revision is “casting new vision” for the original piece of writing. It’s a “re-imagining” of the original content. You have what you want to say, now you are considering all the various ways it can be said. Your freewrite/draft is the jet stream of […]

Try these 2 easy, fun games to improve your student'(s) phoneme awareness--targeting both segmentation and blending. Then she will read and spell better!

Understanding a young writer’s stages of growth is vital. In my years of working with families, I’ve found that it is much more effective to look at how writers grow naturally than to focus on scope and sequence, grade level, ages, or the types of writing that ought to be done in some “established sequence.” […]

Bogart Kids, 1999 What I did when I homeschooled my five: I kept us all together as much as possible! Here’s how. We started our days together every day. We spent one hour of the morning reading. Devotional literature Non Fiction (like books about nature or tanks or world religions or geography or the weather […]

The new year brings a perfect opportunity to refresh and re-energize our homeschooling practices. It’s not just about sticking to what has worked in the past; it’s about bringing in new ideas and approaches. On today’s Brave Writer podcast, we encourage parents to experiment with different educational styles and activities. From introducing treasure hunts to […]

“I didn’t know writing could be this fun.” Elliott, age 12 Sandwiched between early childhood and adolescence, middle schoolers are rapidly changing, exploring, and learning about the world—and how they fit into it. It can be a challenging time. No worries! Brave Writer’s got you covered! Our online middle school classes: Introduce students to formatted […]

This Brave Writer review from a skeptic turned enthusiast will help you decide whether or not to try this unconventional homeschool language arts curriculum

By Lora Fanning [This post contains Amazon affiliate links. When you click on those links to make purchases, Brave Writer receives compensation at no extra cost to you. Thank you!] Question: How do you practice the Brave Writer Lifestyle? How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare isn’t Brave Writer specific, but the addition of memorization and storytelling […]

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. I'm not really sure which aspect of the Brave Writer lifestyle I fell in love with first. Was it our first poetry teatimes, calling out Shel Silverstein poems over the roar of the jungle rain? Or the permission to devour audiobook after audiobook as we drive through forests and fields together, and call it school? Or was it the idea that the excited words of my tiny daughters as they told me stories were the very first seeds of their writing selves, and that I should catch them on a page like a teacup catching rain, so they could see the significance of their ideas? Or maybe it was the joy of discovering that we could bypass workbooks and instead languish on the beautiful words of the literature we loved together. Or spend a day wandering an art museum with a stack of postcards and learn more than we could in a month of lessons at a desk. Whatever it was, it's got us hooked, and if you've been reading my blog for some time, you know I'm not shy about saying so. But many of

Brave Writer: it's a buzzword in homeschool circles. A highly recommended writing program and die hard fans call it a lifestyle. But what is the Brave Writer lifestyle? And what is the BIG DEAL?!?

We had our first ever Teatime Tuesday yesterday. We ate frosted cookies & scones. We drank hot tea & egg nog. We read to each other from several Shel Silverstein books and also from a children’s poem book. My kids (13, 11) told me that it was their very favorite homeschool event – ever. (This […]

I discovered how to create the perfect elementary language arts curriculum with Brave Writer and Grammar Galaxy. I’m giddy about it!

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Hi Julie, Thanks to The Writer’s Jungle, I can now relax and teach writing in a more natural and fun way. Your blog has helped inspire our homeschooling and remind us of what really matters. I like your homeschool style and wonder if I could get your recommendations on any particular materials that you used over the […]

If you need a great way to add meaning and ease to your language arts this year, check out 10 things we love about Brave Writer's Arrow + Boomerang guides.

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. I'm not really sure which aspect of the Brave Writer lifestyle I fell in love with first. Was it our first poetry teatimes, calling out Shel Silverstein poems over the roar of the jungle rain? Or the permission to devour audiobook after audiobook as we drive through forests and fields together, and call it school? Or was it the idea that the excited words of my tiny daughters as they told me stories were the very first seeds of their writing selves, and that I should catch them on a page like a teacup catching rain, so they could see the significance of their ideas? Or maybe it was the joy of discovering that we could bypass workbooks and instead languish on the beautiful words of the literature we loved together. Or spend a day wandering an art museum with a stack of postcards and learn more than we could in a month of lessons at a desk. Whatever it was, it's got us hooked, and if you've been reading my blog for some time, you know I'm not shy about saying so. But many of

We aren't strict adherents to Charlotte Mason, but more of loose followers. Take a peek inside a day in the life of our relaxed Charlotte Mason homeschool.

We're really enjoying the Quiver of Arrows from Brave Writer for our grade 3 language arts supplement. I love literature based homeschooling

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Liberate your young writers with freewriting! See thoughts and ideas develop right on the page with this core writing practice for young and old! Veteran freewriters, keep scrolling for a fun ranking activity! (And get some neat insights into your kid-writers!) New to Freewriting? Here’s a quick guide: Don’t read your child’s writing! Invite them […]

This Brave Writer review from a skeptic turned enthusiast will help you decide whether or not to try this unconventional homeschool language arts curriculum

When you say Ogden Nash, the first thing that comes to one’s mind is his quirky and light verse. And his observation skills. Amid poets who were discussing iambic and dactylic meters and free verse, [...]

Text: We were brave soldiers. Still, all of us feared the Silent Army.

I discovered how to create the perfect elementary language arts curriculum with Brave Writer and Grammar Galaxy. I’m giddy about it!

ALL Video games are just brain dead, button-mashing alternatives to Netflix binging, right? WRONG. Some video games are bent on excellent storytelling and writers, as a result, have a TON to learn …

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new” — Samuel Johnson What the 18th century lexicographer didn’t say, was that authors should confine…