Homeschool Writing Course for 7-Year Old Leads to Published Book
By Sun Kyu Bae |
Published May 14, 2010 |
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It's easier than you think to have your child's book resting on her own bookshelf!
National Novel Writing Month
It so happened that we were in the month of November when I found a site called National Novel Writing Month. This site challenges not only children, but people of all ages to write with abandon for each day during the month of November. Interested in the concept, I researched the site further and found that the site included a Young Writer's Program section for kids 17 years old and younger. The fact that 22,000 young writers participated in this program in 2008 piqued my interest further.
Specifically, the young writer has to commit from the beginning to write a minimum number of words for her novel. For first graders (Ryan's category), the minimum suggested number of words is 300 - 3,000.
"3,000, what's that number, Daddy?" asked Ryan.
After explaining the meaning of this number, Ryan quickly thought that 300 would be a more reasonable number. And not knowing exactly whether this exercise may actually end up hurting Ryan's morale if in fact he didn't meet this goal, I summarily agreed.
Now, the great thing about the National Novel Writing Month site is that there they provide clear and easily doable steps for writing a novel. I told Serina right away that we found our planned lessons for Ryan's writing course - we would follow the site's instructions, except for the deadline of November 30 for completing the story. I thought that Ryan would need more time because: 1) we were already at the end of the first week of November and 2) there were some excellent planning activities that would take some time even before writing would begin.
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