Can little kids write before they can write? Yes, they can!
Did you know:
your children are already writers?
you're the best writing coach for them?
learning to write can be pleasurable?
mathematical concepts can be learned through reading and writing?
Kids, at this age, are delightful storytellers. They sing songs and recite facts. They scribble on books, walls, and your kitchen table! They count and compare, measure and explore numbers.
Children (5–7) are bursting with self-expression and curiosity. Capitalize on their natural inquisitiveness by joining us on a year-long adventure in early literacy.
Lay the right foundation for reading, writing, and math with our year-long bundled program!
Kids grow naturally from fluent speakers to powerful writers when they have developmentally appropriate tools and an enthusiastic partner to guide and support them.
You're that partner; we've got the tools.
In the Beginning Writer’s Bundle, we combine three interlocking programs for a year of essential language arts and early mathematical concepts:
An easy-to-use manual to help you teach your kids how to write.
Monthly handbooks that pair with picture books to entice children to playfully engage with reading, writing, and math! See the Quill description box below for the themes covered in each list: Frog or Hedgehog.
A program of monthly oral and writing projects that capitalize on your child's big vocabulary and your ability to jot it down.
Our bundles include year-long, non-consumable PDF products. We show you how to put them together for a rich writing life! These tools can be used for more than one child in your family at a time, particularly if close in age, and again with other children as they come of age. Read the feature descriptions below.
Brave Writer Sampler
New to our program?
Click here for a sneak peek of our products. Our year-long bundles are beautifully designed, non-consumable and meaty! Not to worry—we'll hold your hand with lots of guidance so that implementation is a breeze! Download and print the samples or view them on your tablet.
Brave Writer has served over 100,000 families, over 22 years, in 191 countries. We know what works!
I can not say enough about this program. It has influenced the way we study all of our subjects. Our homeschool is better for it. I highly recommend this program!
Kristin Wright
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Purchase Individual Items
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 studentswhatto write. We show themhowto write.
Growing Brave Writersis the essential training you need to be the delightful writing coach your children deserve. End writer’s block!
One product to teach all your kids, and will last your entire homeschool career!
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 feelgoodabout writing.
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 additional chapter and an appendix feature:
Directions for how to use the program in co-ops, with schooled children, and across the curriculum
Writing samples for the activities
Growing Brave Writersis a 200+ page 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.
Purchase perks! Upon purchase, automatically enter into a 10-month email workflow that will guide you step-by-step! Implementation was never so easy!
Want a print copy? Go to the front of the line at the Homeschool Printing Company with a special Brave Writer offer. Orderhere.
All products are digital and downloadable. All sales are FINAL. No refunds.
Quill
$199.95$149.00
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
$199.95$149.00
Grab your books and pencils! TheQuillis our revolutionary product that puts joy at the center of reading, writing, and math for the youngest crowd.
Our year-long program has ten month-long lesson plans that develop pre-literacy skills!
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
Building fine and gross motor skills
Plus: oodles of games and activities
Turn early literacy into play!
Each handbook explores essential reading, handwriting, and math skills through a theme.
Pick either the Frog or the Hedgehog set. Enjoy Quills in any order.
Frog Themes:
Wordless Picture Books
Riddles & Jokes
Art
Wild Animals
Transportation
Poetry
Cooking
Rocks Rock
Buggy Bugs
Spectacular Sports
Hedgehog Themes:
Wordless Picture Books
Under the Sea: Sea Mammals
Inventions & Inventors
Music & Song Lyrics
Weather: Clouds
Space: Planets
Superheroes and Heroes
On the Farm
Flowers
Pets
Note: The Wordless Picture Books Quill is on both lists because it offers foundational practices for exploring books with Quill-age kids.
Lay a great foundation in reading, writing, and math now!
TheQuill*is delivered to your Brave Writer online account. Each handbook is four-color, about 30-40 pages, is a non-consumable PDF, and can be used with multiple children in your family (no need to purchase additional copies).
Want a print copy? Go to the front of the line at the Homeschool Printing Company with a special Brave Writer offer. Order here.
All products are digital and downloadable. All sales are FINAL. No refunds.
*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! 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! (5-7 yrs)
$49.00
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 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.
Want a print copy? Go to the front of the line at the Homeschool Printing Company with a special Brave Writer offer. Orderhere.
All products are digital and downloadable. All sales are FINAL. No refunds.
Online Classes
Our online classes are wonderful supplements to our written programs. Each class lasts between 3–6 weeks.
For this age group, we enroll you, the adult, with your child so that you can read and post on the child’s behalf.
Some recommended online classes for Beginning Writers include:
Join our resource-rich Brave Learner Home community! Over 17,000 members strong, we offer monthly professional development webinars, monthly themed lesson plans, a community coaching discussion board, and oodles of trainings about how to homeschool and parent. Members get early access to our online class registration as well as other perks.
