I came up with a list of 112 Brave Writer activities to do this school year, which works out to about three per week. I will add "Bravewriter" to my loop plan and we will work our way through the list as time permits.
Julie suggests doing no more than one writing project per month, with just one step completed each week. We will only attempt four Bravewriter-style writing projects this year because we are also using Writing Strands and MCT Town. My plan is to have the kids choose their own topics for the Bravewriter writing projects.
Note: Many of these entries are described in greater detail on the Brave Writer Lifestyle site or in The Writer's Jungle.
112 Activities to do from Bravewriter Lifestyle and The Writer's Jungle
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Play a language game
- Dictation
- Poetry Teatime
- Scrounged Poetry activity (from TWJ)
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Reverse Dictation
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Choose a topic for writing project & research
- Play a language game
- Keen Observation exercise (from TWJ)
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Write a rough draft for writing project
- Poetry Teatime
- Jabberwocky activity (from TWJ)
- Freewriting
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Play a language game
- Narrow and expand writing project
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Reverse Dictation
- Finish up writing project, find readers
- Write a cartoon or limerick
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Play a language game
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Poetry Teatime
- Write a poem
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Choose a topic for writing project #2 & research
- Dictation
- Reverse Dictation
- Rough draft of writing project #2
- Play a language game
- Write a letter
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Narrow & expand writing project #2
- Dictation
- Poetry Teatime
- Write a how-to article
- Polish & find readers for writing project #2
- Play a language game
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Reverse Dictation
- Play a language game
- Play the communication game (from TWJ)
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- play a language game
- Dictation
- Poetry Teatime
- Choose a topic for writing project #3 (make a mini-book as discussed in TWJ) & research
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Reverse Dictation
- Rough draft of mini-book (writing project #3)
- Play a language game
- Try scrounged poetry idea (from TWJ)
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Poetry Teatime
- Narrow and Expand mini-book (writing project #3)
- Keen Observation exercise (from TWJ)
- Freewriting
- Play a language game
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Reverse dictation
- Finish up mini-books (writing project #3)
- Try the Jabberwocky exercise (from TWJ)
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Play a language game
- Poetry Teatime
- Write a cartoon or limerick
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Watch and discuss a movie
- Choose & research a writing project (writing project #4)
- Write a letter
- Play a language game
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Rough draft of writing project #4
- Poetry Teatime
- Play the communication game
- Narrow and expand writing project #4
- Choose a favorite game or project to repeat
- Freewriting
- Copywork
- Polish and find readers for writing project #4
I am totally stealing this list. Thank you SO much for typing it all out! I have read TWJ 3 times now, and haven't decide where to go with it, so this is a tremendous help.
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ReplyDeleteThis looks great! Are you still doing this? If so, how is it going? If not, what didn't work for you?
ReplyDeleteHi, sorry, your comment got caught in my spam folder for some reason! We are not following this anymore, but I am currently revamping it b/c I want to figure out a way to combine BW with Writing with Ease & Writing with Skill.
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