One of the first monthly exercises in “Faltering Ownership” is to collect words and learn to use them as building blocks for writing prompts and expressions.
We jumped right in with the activities in month 1 – Word Collecting and Building. 🙂 Fifth Grade Creative Writing: Brave Writer Review Once I read the introduction to the program, I had a new outlook on what it means to teach creative writing, even though I’ve already finished a degree in English! So Brave Writer taught me quite a lot as well. And that means letting them learn to look at language differently. As parents, we shift from teachers to consultants, giving our children direction but also instilling them with confidence to write what they feel.
In middle grades, kids need to develop more confidence in their writing ability. And Julie applies that analogy to writing. They make turns you’re not expecting and the loss of control can be unnerving for parents, but the experience is essential for kids so that they can take ownership, even if it’s faltering, over their own direction. It’s kind of like giving your child the keys to the car for the first time and riding in the passenger seat as they drive.
I was a little puzzled by the title until I read the introduction to the program, but it turns out that the title fits the program perfectly!Īs Julie explains in the intro, middle school is the time when children begin to “take the wheel” of the writing process. All opinions are my own and I was not required to post a positive review.*įor fifth grade, we used “Faltering Ownership”, the Brave Writer program that’s geared toward 11-12 year olds. *Disclosure: I received access to this resource in exchange for this post. So I was thrilled to get a chance to post a Brave Writer review after trying the program’s Faltering Ownership for fifth grade creative writing! In fact, I loved Brave Writer so much that it’s going to be our creative writing program for this homeschool year!Ĭheck out our review to see how we used Brave Writer to make creative writing accessible and fun! I was an English major in college and I love the writing process, but letting go of what English “should” sound and look like has been a real issue for me personally, so it’s hard for me to teach my kids to write freely. Creative writing is one of the most difficult subjects I’ve ever had to teach in our homeschool.
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