RAR #235: How to Give Feedback on Your Child’s Creative Writing (Even If You Aren’t a Writer!)

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Sarah Mackenzie

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

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I know that if you’re an RAR Family, you are raising kids who love to read, because that’s what we do around here!

And with a love of reading often comes the inspiration to write. And those young writers will come to you looking for feedback on their stories. But what if we, as parents, don’t see ourselves as experts or writers and feel like we don’t have much to offer in the way of feedback?

It happens for a lot of homeschoolers. We know that homeschools are fabulous places to grow young writers, but that we can also feel a little ill-equipped as their writing mentors.

Which is where today’s guests come in. Brett Harris and Kara Swanson were both homeschooled and they share a commitment to mentoring young writers and helping parents become better mentors to their own young writers.

They’re here to reassure you that you do know what makes a good story, and share some of their best advice for giving your child useful feedback on their creative writing.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

Six key elements of story that you probably already know, but just didn’t have words for
Questions to ask your young writer that will set them up for future story–and even career–success
Why expressing your support for your child’s writing is probably the most important thing you can do

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0:00.0	Most of us have too much on our plates before the busy holiday season begins, right?
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0:47.1	or head to read aloud revival.com slash Christmas school
0:51.8	to join us. Hello, hello, welcome back to Read A Loud Revival, episode 235, the show that helps your kids fall in love with books and
1:15.0	helps you fall in love with homeschooling. I'm your host Sarah McKinsey, and
1:19.0	today I've got a couple of guests who are going to join me to talk about something I think is going to
1:25.5	resonate with a lot of you because I know that if you're a read-a-loud revival family, you're raising
1:32.0	kids who love to read because that's what we do
1:34.8	around here. And often what follows is that those same kids who love to read don't
1:41.3	always, but often, are inspired to write. And then those young writers want feedback
1:48.5	on their stories. Of course they do. But if we as parents aren't exactly fiction writing experts or maybe we don't even see ourselves as writers, we might feel like we don't have much to offer in the way of feedback.
2:01.0	I think this comes up especially for homeschoolers because a lot of us
2:06.4	I think intrinsically know that homeschooling is a fabulous place to grow young writers, but we also
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