The awesome and inspiring Julie Bogart, creator of the Brave Writer program is sponsoring this post and giving away two of her products: Exploring Poetry With Children and Brave Writer Goes to the Movies.
Julie Bogart, creator of Brave Writer
Julie is a mom of five who homeschooled for 17 years. She is a professional writer turned coach to parents teaching their children how to write. Brave Writer has taught thousands of families all over the world since it began in the year 2000.
I had the pleasure of meeting Julie and hearing her speak at a conference last year. We began using the Brave Writer curriculum at home shortly thereafter. Reading The Writer’s Jungle introduced me to a new way of thinking about language arts, what Julie calls the Brave Writer Lifestyle. We adopted this style and it’s been a perfect fit for us. To read my full review of the Brave Writer products, click here.
The Brave Writer Lifestyle puts the emphasis on growing creative writers, working with your child rather than power struggling through assignments. Instead of making sentence and paragraph structure the most intense focus in the early years, the idea is to grow kids who are confident in their writing ability, who can be creative and communicate their ideas on paper (or screen) effectively.
The Giveaways
Giveaway #1 Exploring Poetry With Children and a copy of the book Read Aloud Poems for Young People, by Glorya Hale. Exploring Poetry With Children is a guide from The Arrow, one of Brave Writer’s downloadable digital subscriptions. The poetry guide contains four weeks of exercises and learning activities, which are used in conjunction with Glorya Hale’s poetry book. Julie also shares other ideas that will help your family engage in the practice of poetry that everyone will enjoy. The guide is ideal for 8 to 11 year olds and may be appropriate for some 12 year olds.
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Giveaway #2 Brave Writer Goes to the Movies is an e-document that provides several pages of writing prompts and ideas to analyze the setting, characters, message, plot development and more, of films. Treating high quality films as an essential part of our childrens’ education is part of the Brave Writer lifestyle. The advantages include a film’s ability to tell a full plot in approximately two hours and the advantage of traveling to other places in the world and in history. Watching movies with your kids and discussing them during and afterwards, writing down what your kids say about them or having them write their thoughts can all be useful learning tools. This guide is appropriate for ages 8 to 18.
Connect with Brave Writer
You can find Julie on Twitter and Facebook, where she often shares gems of advice, but for more inspiration, sign up for the Daily Writing Tip email. You get a FREE writing report with freewriting practices when you sign up.
How To Enter This Giveaway
- Go to the What is Brave Writer? page of Julie’s site and read it.
- Then come back here, to Creekside Learning, and leave a comment at the bottom of this post about what stood out for you or what you identify with or what intrigues you about the Brave Writer program.
- Include in your comment which product you are most interested in winning, Brave Writer Goes to the Movies or the Exploring Poetry With Young Children/Read Aloud Poems for Young People combo. If you’re interested in winning either of the products, that’s fine, too. Just mention that in your comment. Note the target ages for each of the products above.
- Include a way for me to get in touch with you if you win.
Terms: One winner for each product will be chosen at random on Monday, April 1st, 2013 at midnight, EST. Must live in the US to enter.
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