It’s summertime! Are you planning for the upcoming school year? Whether you’re homeschooling or sending kids to a traditional school, writing is that one skill that so many of us find unnerving.

One of the big problems is that your child’s age or grade level doesn’t tell you much about your writer. Writing develops the same way as any other skill: over time, at the writers’ own pace. Over 22 years of working with tens of thousands of students, I’ve developed what I call the natural stages of growth in writing and my confidence in its accuracy has only solidified over time.

Today, we’re going to walk through each of those stages:

• [04:58] Beginning Writers: Jot it Down (5-7)
• [07:51] Emerging Writers: Partnership Writing (8-10)
• [10:31] Middle School Writers: Building Confidence (11-12)
• [15:39] High School Writers: Experimenting with Forms (13-14)
• [17:29] College Prep Writers: Joining the Conversation (15-18)
• [19:43] Adult Writers: Fluent and Competent (18 and beyond)

Visit bravewriter.com/stages to learn more about how our products and classes are organized according to these stages and find the ones that are going to help you. We are eager to support you!

You can download show notes for the podcast here: https://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/

Resources:

• Visit bravewriter.com/stages to find the right products for your child’s current learning stage
• If you need help placing any of your children in the correct stage of development for them, reach out at [email protected] or sign up for our text messaging system by messaging the word POD to 833-947-3684.
• Want help getting started with Brave Writer? Head over to bravewriter.com/getting-started
• Sign up for the Brave Writer newsletter to learn about all of the special offers we’re doing in 2022 and you’ll get a free seven-day Writing Blitz guide just for signing up: https://go.bravewriter.com/writing-blitz

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