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Join other young, bright, curious, and advanced thinkers as we share each other’s Creativity Lab Missions each week in order to hear what everyone thought was strong for them as a reader and what would have made it stronger for us as a reader. These creative writing pieces can be written by having a parent or sibling scribe, by using voice-to-text, or by typing them in themselves. The goal here is to capture their ideas!

Each week, we will also explore an academic sentence topic using their creative writing pieces as inspiration. We will be using the The Writing Revolution method to guide this skill development. We will play orally with concepts like sentence fragments, appositives, subordinating conjunctions, sentence combining, and sentence expanding while I scribe for the group so that we can see the ideas as we bring them to life.

Please note that I am acutely aware of the potential risk of hampering an author’s creativity when  looking at academic sentence principles in the context of creative writing. I will be actively cultivating an approach that protects their creative integrity while still using their pieces for optimal ‘buy-in.’ I will be stressing that the share time for creative writing is NOT for any editing feedback. It will ONLY be for feedback on the content and approach. Our academic sentences workshop will be clearly demarcated as something separate. For example, when our academic sentences workshop explores starting sentences with subordinating conjunction clauses, we might start by hunting for examples in each other’s texts, and then we might choose a simple sentence from each person’s piece to see how they would sound if we turn them into complex sentences. All of our in-class practice will be done orally with me scribing for the group as needed.

No reading or writing skills are required for this class. 

Note: Learners with other challenges, including dyslexia and dysgraphia, should add on or continue with additional supports that target their specific challenges.