Foundations in Writing

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How Classes Work

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Brave Writer’s Online Classroom

Fall Dates:

October 1 - November 9, 2012

Instructor:

Rita Cevasco, M.A.

Tuition:

$229.00 per family

Ages:

Family Class
(All ages welcome)

Foundations in Writing covers all the language arts practices you wonder about: handwriting, punctuation, grammar, literary style, spelling, vocabulary development, and reading. If you want answers to those pesky language arts questions, you’ll find them in this course.

Do I need workbooks for language arts?
How do I use a natural language arts approach?
Are spelling tests necessary?
How much copywork is the right amount to assign?
Do vocabulary lists work?
How much grammar does my child need each year?
What teaches a child to punctuate accurately in her own writing?
How does reading help growth in writing?
How much help should I give my child?
Should my child spend energy learning to handwrite or keyboard? Or both?
What do I do if my child hates dictation?
What if my child has a learning disability? Is there specific help for him/her?

Rita Cevasco M.A., Brave Writer instructor and professional language and reading pathologist, applies the Brave Writer philosophy to her therapeutic strategies for enhancing natural language arts practices to make them the most effective tools for teaching writing mechanics that you’ll find. This course will feature copywork and dictation as the primary tools, but will explore them in previously untapped depths.

I promise you: you’ll never think about copywork and dictation in the same ways again! You’ll finally grasp why these practices are the essential keys to developing your young writers into competent transcribers, without the tedium of workbooks and spelling tests. Truly, this is a course you don’t want to miss!

Furthermore, children who struggle with language processing disorders, such as:

dyslexia
dysgraphia
visual tracking problems
phonemic awareness issues
auditory processing issues
ADD and ADHD
partial deafness
speech impediments
ESL
Asperger’s syndrome
and more

are especially encouraged to take this class. Rita’s expertise makes her an invaluable resource for the mom wanting to guide her language impaired student. Rita will help you tailor the exercises and tasks to fit your special needs children so that your kids will grow incrementally, according to their abilities. Brave Writer is alone in the homeschooling market in offering a course of this kind of depth and expert aid. Take advantage of it! (Rita told me she loves working with homeschooling mothers because you are so willing and able to follow through on the therapies. Imagine how much money you’ll save not hiring a private tutor, when you can learn how to do the therapies yourself in one six week class!)

Included: We provide you with issues of the Arrow and/or Boomerang as well as visual examples of how the processes work for other families.

If you’re scratching your head about how to make language arts a rich, satisfying, natural experience for all of your kids and want to ditch the workbooks forever, don’t miss this class! It’s designed just for you.

Not only that, we offer this course as a “family class” which means you pay one fee for all of your kids!

The Brave Writer Program

I can’t say enough about what you have done with this course. It was more than I could have imagined. It gave me a very solid foundation and understanding of the process of copywork and dictation through the different stages, the importance of such work and the significance of it in the education of my children. —Dona

I learned so much it is hard to summarize in a few sentences… I just can’t say enough about what I’ve learned through all the Brave Writer resources. I recommend you all – everything you offer! – to everyone I talk to about home schooling or writing. —Hillary

I would recommend that you repeat the copywork/dictation class again sometime in the future. I would like to recommend it to other homeschool moms who are working with children that struggle with writing and spelling.

It was a great class, thank you!!
—Jolene

Today is the third week I have implemented some of the techniques taught in Rita’s One Thing Copywork/Dictation Class. To say that I am pleased is an understatement. I have been concerned about my oldest’s spelling–worried that I wasn’t doing enough to help him. Prior to taking Rita’s class he would typically get 5-6 misspelled words per dictation.

It was a source of frustration for him every week even though I tried to keep it positive. For the third week in a row, he has missed only one word–one! I can not tell you what that has done for his self esteem. I can not recommend that class enough–even if your child isn’t struggling. (Rita has ideas for those who are advanced in their skills as well). Copywork and Dictation works.
—Paula

Brave Writer