237. 2024-25 Book Reveal Talk! With Dawn Smith

Brave Writer

Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley

Books, Arts, Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Education

4.8 • 904 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It’s almost time for our annual book list release! Every year we curate a new list of books to be part of our Dart (ages 8-10 ), Arrow (10-12), and Boomerang (12-14) programs. Dawn Smith spearheads this undertaking and she joins us today to describe how she picks which books to be on the list.

The reason the book release is so highly anticipated is because Dawn chooses books that she knows are going to elicit kids’ buy-in, lead to big, juicy family conversations, and give kids tools to tell their own stories.

Dawn and Melissa explain the journey they go on to put together the Dart, Arrow, and Boomerang programs, how they are intentional about centering what is activating, engaging, and flexible.

Plus, stay tuned until the end to learn how to sign up for the book list announcement webinars and the giveaways you may win!

Resources:

Sign up to attend the free Brave Writer Book Reveal webinars!
Check out the Brave Writer Bookshop
Take a look at the Skunk & Badger Dart
Start a free trial of CTCmath.com to try the math program that’s sure to grab and keep your child’s attention!
Check out the new “Becoming a Critical Thinker” workbook
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0:47.0	I am so excited for you to tune in today.
0:55.0	Melissa and I have the joy of talking with Don Smith,
1:00.0	the director of publishing, all about the Brave Writer book reveals that we will be conducting
1:06.6	on May 30th and 31st.
1:09.5	Why is this a big deal, you ask?
1:11.7	Because in Brave Writer Writer we believe in teaching the mechanics of writing,
1:16.8	spelling, punctuation, grammar, handwriting, literary craft and devices through what Charlotte Mason calls living literature.
1:27.3	And each year, the highlight of the whole year, is when parents and kids sit in baited breath anticipation while I reveal on a live
1:37.2	webinar each of the titles Don has read and selected for us. We're going to discuss why that is such a monumental
1:45.8	event in the lives of your families and to pump you up for having a great
1:51.2	year of read aloud's literature and writing instruction with Brave Writer.
1:56.0	One of the things we talked about during our conversation and the reason I'm adding this intro today
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