250. Reading Aloud: Why Teach Writing Mechanics with Living Literature?

Brave Writer

Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley

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

4.8 • 904 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What’s living literature? What does it have to do with teaching your kids grammar and spelling? Today’s episode is a recording of Julie’s webinar where she explains the heart of Brave Writer’s approach to teaching writing.

Julie explains how immersion in rich, powerful literature is the best way to teach your child writing mechanics. She outlines the Brave Writer process in six steps: Parent reads aloud; student reads to themselves; student keenly observes what they read and asks investigative questions; student tests what they know through copywork and dictation; student corrects their own work; and student free writes.

With specific examples and colorful anecdotes, Julie dives into the details for each step. She also breaks them down by program level: The Quill (5-7 year olds), Dart (8-10), Arrow (11-12), Boomerang (13-14), and Slingshot (15-18).

If you’ve been looking for a distillation of what exactly Brave Writer is, this is the episode for you.

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0:39.8	Start your free trial today by visiting CTC math.com.
0:47.0	Welcome to the Brave Rider Podcast.
0:50.0	I'm Melissa Wiley, Julie Bogart's co-host. It's August and
0:58.2	Julie is taking a short break from the podcast to work on her book and teach a class and do all the August things.
1:06.3	So today we would like to share with you Julie's webinar about reading aloud. Why teach writing mechanics with living literature? What even is
1:17.5	living literature? This is a topic we are very enthusiastic about. So, or a cup of tea, or head out for a walk, while Julie explores the
1:28.0	value of allowing your children to be bathed in high quality literature while they learn the mechanics and craft of writing.
1:37.0	Enjoy.
1:41.0	So today we want to talk about why we teach the mechanics of writing using
1:48.7	living literature and maybe some of you are already saying what the heck do you mean by living literature?
1:54.2	So I want to throw that out to you.
1:56.8	In the comments, tell me, when you hear the word living literature,
2:00.9	that word pair, what does it mean to you?
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