244. Middle School Writers: Natural Stages of Growth in Writing #3
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our third episode in our Natural Stages of Growth in Writing series! Today we cover the Middle School Writers stage, which typically occurs around ages 9-12.
This stage is all about building confidence, instilling in your student that they can consistently express themselves well in writing.
We dive into freewriting practices—generating ideas and writing in short spurts. We also walk through how to do low-stakes revisions to help kids get comfortable with messing with their writing after it is on the page. We also talk about non-writing activities students can do that contribute to their writing skills.
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- Start a free trial of CTCmath.com to try the math program that’s sure to grab and keep your child’s attention.
- Sign up by the end of July for the Brave Writer Training
- Here’s our free Summer Games Guide
- Check out the Middle School Writers Bundle
- Learn more about our Building Confidence projects
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- Check out our list of Tools for the Art of Writing
- Sign up for Brave Writer Summer Camp
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for a great math program, CTC math provides online video |
| 0:07.0 | tutorials that make learning math easy and effective by using creative graphics |
| 0:12.2 | and animation that are sure to grab and keep your child's attention. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's a great testimonial from Lori. |
| 0:19.0 | She said, one day, my 10-year-old was in tears over math. I tried my best to help but I ended up in |
| 0:26.4 | tears as well. That very night I received an email offer for CTC math. The following Monday we reviewed the curriculum together. |
| 0:35.8 | She was willing to give it a shot and we have never looked back. |
| 0:39.8 | Start your free trial today by visiting CTC Mac.com. |
| 0:47.0 | Today's episode of the podcast continues our series in the natural stages of growth in |
| 0:55.8 | writing. The first two episodes, Beginning Writers and Emerging Writers, are already |
| 1:01.8 | published and you can go back and listen to those if you like. |
| 1:05.4 | Beginning writers covers students from 0 to 7 and emerging writers covers kids who are 8 |
| 1:12.3 | to 10. Today we are going emerging writers |
| 1:14.0 | today we are going to look at writers between the ages of 11 and 12 |
| 1:19.0 | but just know this each of the stages of growth are not really tied to age or grade. |
| 1:25.0 | They're actually a description of where your child is naturally in the writing process. |
| 1:32.0 | So if you notice that you have an naturally in the writing process. |
| 1:33.0 | So if you notice that you have an 11 year old |
| 1:36.0 | who is more suited to the emerging writer's stage of growth, |
| 1:40.0 | that is A-OK. |
| 1:41.5 | That doesn't mean they're behind. |
| 1:43.0 | It doesn't mean there's anything wrong. |
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