Partnership Writing Review by Brave Writer For 2nd & 3rd Grade
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
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We ended 2nd and 3rd grade having finished 4.5 of the Partnership Writing projects by Brave Writer. We definitely weren’t aggressive with this, but rather used it as a reason to write. I think the kids have enjoyed the informal writing projects, and I've learned a lot about guiding kids at this stage of writing.
In the Partnership stage, they are able to physically write, and put together words and sentences (even if not spelled correctly).
However, they still need your help for a lot. Julie Bogart uses these projects to help you to get them to find a reason to write, and teaches you how to help them.
These are divided into 10 one month long projects, and further divided into suggested week by week tasks to finish the project. This is aimed at children ages 9-11.
Partnership Writing is the creative writing, original though program by Brave Writer. It is not a grammar or copywork, or handwriting program. It’s made to help your kids express their ideas, writing most everything themselves with your help to gather information and organize their thoughts into these projects.
You will not learn how to write a 5 paragraph essay here. You will not learn a bunch of rules. You will find different ways to present information, and need to partner with your child to find and present that information on paper.
This is a fairly heavy parent guided program, though I’ve never used another writing program so i cannot compare it to any others.
We like it, and will be using this again for 3rd and 4th grade to finish up the projects we didn't make time for this year.
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As I was about halfway through watching this video, my 8-year-old grandson joined me. Your descriptions, plus your children's examples intrigued him enough to say, "We should try this!" Lol, we will definitely check it out. I had been curious about the Brave Writer projects, so I really appreciate this video.
Thank you for making this detailed video. I have been a little intimidated to start this writing project. It looks so fun and I can see my boys enjoying this program. Thanks a lot.
Glad it helped! I wish there were more examples out there on CZcams. So hoping this is an honest look at how we've tackled a few projects!
Thank you, this was so helpful!
I am so grateful to you for doing this! It's so much easier seeing all of their projects vs reading through it all. lol
I agree! I wish there were more examples out there because these are so open ended. I bet others have done it much differently too!
I've been thinking on language arts & grammar, writing specifically. If my kid has no reason to write why would I be teaching them parts of speech or anything really. That seems like it should come later. I feel like we've been doing it backwards. This looks great!
That’s a really good point. I remember loving to write as a kid but often feeling like it had to have all the right parts of a story to be written. Not great for the creative side! Hoping they will learn what they need to eventually buy just wanting them to write for fun at this point.
Would you recommend jot it down or partnership for an 8 year old (just turning 8 in August)?
When my oldest was 8 (also a reluctant writer then) we did Jot It Down and it was great! He just did more of the writing than his younger sister did who was tagging along. For example, he wrote more in his bug mini book descriptions than she did. This year we did Partnership writing with my kids ages 8 and 9. It was also fine and was VERY adjustable. It had lengthier projects that required more of me though. If you have a younger kid that's joining in, I'd put both in Jot It Down. If not, either way is fine. I really like Jot It Down though because it teaches you the importance of oral narration and that it's 100% ok to write down your kids words for them till they can take over more. If Jot It Down doesn't challenge your kid, you can always come up with another writing project, have them start writing letters in the mail, or add in free writing.
Thanks for these videos! I LOVE this program but it was so confusing with all that you have to read and how to structure it. For the writing, did you print the projects pages for the kids, or do you just have one for you and you go off that? :) THANKS!
I just printed one booklet and it was for me to read through, not the kids. I used it to figure out what to do for the project and would just let them know. Occasionally I'd show them a photo example, so they have some clue what it might look like. Hope that helps!