Happy Fall, New Classics Subscribers!
It’s fall, and hopefully your school is beginning to roll along smoothly. This is a great time to learn ways to help your child grow in their writing skills. Jan May has included a PDF download to go along with her CULTIVATING YOUNG WRITERS article this month.
Cultivating Young Writers
As well as being a writer, I am passionate about teaching creative writing. Reading great books inspires writing great books, and Americans are writing more now than ever before, thanks to blogging, texting, and the internet highway. Writers are influencing our world and the way we think.
Martin Luther was spot on when he said, “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen!” Harriet Beecher Stowe proved this with her compelling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. President Abraham Lincoln hailed her as “the little woman who started this great Civil War” because of the powerful narrative of slavery she portrayed. If the written word is so paramount in shaping the world around us, how can we as (home) educators develop its importance in our children?
Creative Writing involves much more than leading your children to make up fanciful stories. It offers a multitude of educational opportunities by building skills your children will use throughout their lifetimes.
- It teaches strategic thought and problem-solving through learning how to write a plot.
- It teaches close observation through learning to develop sensory writing, which happily overflows into science class.
- It helps children succeed and grow in confidence. They may not feel brave enough to tackle a new skill or process a current life experience, but through speaking through the eyes of characters they can write about it.
- It teaches characterization, producing self-expression and empathy
- It livens up language class by teaching sentence structure and format in a fun way.
- It teaches how to unleash creativity, think outside the box, invent, and practice imagination
- It helps develop creative nonfiction writing by learning how to write vividly.
We need Christian writers in this generation. We need more authors like C.S. Lewis to remind us of courage, loyalty, the reward of godliness, and the cost of following evil. And those little writers, who are in your homeschool, could be the next world changers for Christ.
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Happy Writing!
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. . . is a homeschool publisher, author, and freelance writer for The Old Schoolhouse, Thriving Family, and Clubhouse Jr. Magazines. She birthed the New Millennium Girl Series (Isabel’s Secret) to inspire young girls to realize that they can have a vibrant faith in a faithful God, no matter what challenges they face. New Classics offers the Isabel's Secret study guide to download free on the New Classics website️.
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