Customize your program to suit your family and needs! Each of the three programs can be purchased individually. Create your customized program using recommended resources below.
Growing Brave Writers
$79.00
Growing Brave Writers is the essential training you need to be the effective writing coach your children deserve. While other programs focus on what to write, Growing Brave Writers teaches children how to write. End writer's block!
(ages 8-18)
Growing Brave Writers
$79.00
Put away the red pen! Most programs tell students what to write. We show them how to write.
Growing Brave Writers is the essential training you need to be the delightful writing coach your children deserve. End writer’s block!
Together, you and your kids will:
- play oral and writing games
- grow a rich vocabulary
- do research
- freewrite (unblocks your blocked writers)
- revise (brand new material)
- edit (two strategies your kids will embrace)
- polish fiction and nonfiction writing
Empower your kids to feel good about writing.
22 years, 100,000 students, 191 countries—we know what works!
This program works for a wide-range of children. Perfect for children who can read easily and handwrite comfortably.
Each chapter contains:
- A coaching guide for a writing practice
- A writing activity with detailed instructions
- A checklist for completion
- A sample written narrative of skills mastered
An appendix features:
- Writing samples for the activities
- Directions for how to use the program in co-ops and schools
- A planning model to apply to your calendar
Growing Brave Writers is a 200+ page black and white PDF file. It’s non-consumable, and works well with students of all ages (8–18). It’s designed to support a writer doing any kind of writing, including assignments in other programs or classes, for homeschooled and traditionally schooled students.
When you preorder Growing Brave Writers, you are invited to a special training for how to use it with Julie Bogart. This session is available to all who preorder and will be sent to the registered guests as a replay if you can’t be with us live. Julie will discuss how to implement the practices in the manual for homeschoolers, traditional schoolers, in co-ops and across the curriculum. She’ll answer your questions as well. Registration is required to attend.
All products are digital and downloadable. All sales are FINAL. No refunds.
Quill
$129.00
The Quill is our brand new, revolutionary product that puts joy at the center of literacy in reading, writing, and (wait for it) mathematics!
Delivered in ten handbooks, one per month, your children will learn the essential critical thinking skills that enable them to be great readers, writers, and calculators. Turn pre-literacy into play!
(ages 5-7)
Quill
$129.00
Grab your books and pencils! The Quill is our brand new, revolutionary product that puts joy at the center of reading, writing, and math for the youngest crowd.
Our year-long program is delivered in 10 month-long lesson plans, released one month at a time.
Each handbook explores essential reading, handwriting, and math skills through a theme:
- wordless picture books
- riddles and jokes
- art
- wild animals
- transportation
- cooking
- poetry
. . . and more!
Lay a great foundation in reading, writing, and math now!
Lead your child into literacy of all kinds:
- Identifying letters and punctuation
- Differentiating between upper and lowercase alphabets, in various fonts
- Interpreting symbols and images
- Applying mathematical concepts: numbers, proportion, scale, measurement, and shapes
- Deciphering illustrations and images
- Understanding emotions and body language
- Practicing handwriting and pencil management
- Developing a rich vocabulary in specific language domains
- Exploring literary devices
- Plus: oodles of games and activities
Turn pre-literacy into play!
The Quill* is delivered to your Brave Writer online account once per month on the 15th (starting in July). Each handbook is four-color, about 25-30 pages, is a non-consumable PDF, and can be used with multiple children in your family (no need to purchase additional copies).
*The Quill is not a phonics, handwriting, or arithmetic program. It is a pre-literacy program that makes learning to read, handwrite, and apply mathematical concepts easier.
Jot it Down
$49.95
Jot It Down! provides ten month-long writing projects such as, letters, fairytale narrations, posters, mini-books, lists, writing about numbers, and body art. Guidance for poetry recitation, word play, nature study, art appreciation, music, and movies included.
(ages 5-7)
Jot it Down
$49.95
Welcome to the joy of writing without requiring your child to lift a pencil!
Jot It Down offers a collection of delightful activities:
- Writing fairytales
- Going on scavenger hunts in art museums
- Designing a photo journal
- Writing a mini book about animals
- Setting up a mail system in your house
- Creating posters, lists, and exploring the world of numbers
- Drawing a full sized body shape and filling it with words
- Three sorts of parties
- Not to mention poetry, music, recitation, and oral games!
By jotting down your child's words even before they know how to read, your youngest children discover that they're writers already!
Included in the program:
- Guidance for poetry recitation, word play, nature study, art appreciation, music, and movies
- Ten month-long writing projects: letters, fairytale narrations, posters, mini-books, lists, writing about numbers, and body art
- A tool to plan the projects
- A tool to track the skills your child gains
- A sample schedule (routine) for how to incorporate these practices into your year
Children love these projects because they get to hold in their hands evidence that they are writers, even when they're still learning to read and handwrite.
Jot It Down! is 80+ pages in a four-color downloadable PDF file. Looks great on tablets and iPads, or can be printed. The product is non-consumable and can be used for multiple children in your own family at once. Each activity can be done more than one time with a fresh topic to practice the formats.
