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Home writing instruction for gifted kids.
Dig into the print versions of our Full Member digital curriculum, designed for families who prefer paper and pencils.
Each print lesson booklet contains:
1 or more video lessons to watch on our website
4 practices that combine fun but rigorous original writing, critical reading (varies from lesson to lesson), and multiple-choice questions designed specifically for gifted elementary and middle school children
1 lesson quiz
Answer key with explanations and tips & tricks for assessing your child’s work
Glossary of challenging words
Extension practices (as relevant)
General tips for teaching your gifted child to write and develop critical thinking skills
Copious cat wisdom!
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Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child spacing conventions in writing.
Do you notice lots of spacing mistakes in your child’s writing, or do you simply want them to ease into a regular writing habit? Lesson 1.1: Spacing is a great way to introduce your child to focused writing work and ensure they learn to use proper spacing. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
✔️ Glossary
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 35 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child when and where to use ending punctuation, as well as the role of the audience in writing.
Do you notice lots of ending punctuation mistakes in your child’s writing, or do you simply want them to ease into a regular writing habit? Lesson 1.2: Ending Punctuation & Audience is a great way to introduce your child to focused writing work and ensure they learn to place ending punctuation, including around parentheses and quotation marks. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 2 fun video lessons
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
✔️ Glossary
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 38 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child foundational sentence grammar.
Is your child comfortable writing complete sentences as their default? Do they know the elements of a complete sentence? Lesson 1.3: Sentences teaches kids about the foundational grammar structure of sentences and introduces them to key concepts such as verbs and nouns, all while unleashing their creativity. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 3 extension practices on common problem areas, including “to be” verbs
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 54 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child the rules of capitalization.
Does your child use correct capitalization as their default? Do they know the difference between a common noun or adjective and a proper noun or adjective? Lesson 1.4: Capitalization teaches kids about capitalization conventions and introduces them to key concepts such as adjectives, proper nouns, proper adjectives, adverbs, and dialogue, all while unleashing their creativity. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 2 extension practices on common problem areas
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 50 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child a beginning set of Greek & Latin roots and vocabulary words.
Teach your child how to decode complicated words, spelling strategies, and word sense by introducing them to the world of Greek and Latin word roots and Japanese haiku. Lesson 1.5: Greek & Latin Roots 1 teaches kids about word root conventions and introduces them to key concepts such as prefixes and suffixes, all while unleashing their creativity. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 5 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
Note: The quiz for this lesson is at the end of Lesson 1.6: Spelling & vocabulary. Together, the two lessons cover spelling, vocabulary, and word sense.
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Length: 40 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child spelling strategies and words.
Teach your child spelling strategies, word sense, and fiction writing by introducing them to the world of phonemes and character development. Lesson 1.6: Spelling & Vocabulary 1 teaches kids about phonemes (a core phonics concept) and word roots, as well as the core element of character-driven fiction. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ End of lesson quiz (covers the content of both Lessons 1.5 and 1.6)
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 59 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child how to edit their sentences.
Teach your child a systematic approach to editing their sentences. Lesson 1.7: Editing Sentences introduces kids to editing the mechanics (punctuation, spelling, spacing, grammar, etc.) and content (meaning) of their sentences. Our lessons combine original editing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ End of lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 41 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child to form plural and possessive words.
Teach your child how to form and edit all manner of plurals and possessive words. Lesson 1.8: Plurals & Possessives introduces kids to plural and possessive nouns and pronouns while continuing their work on fiction writing and poetry. Our lessons combine original writing challenges, editing challenges, and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ End of lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 60 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child to form contractions, distinguish formality, and write dialogue.
Teach your child how to form and edit all manner of contractions. Lesson 1.9: Contractions introduces kids to contractions and formality while continuing their work on fiction writing. Our lessons combine original writing challenges, editing challenges, and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ End of lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 70 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child where and when to use commas.
Teach your child how to distinguish key grammatical units, including independent clauses, dependent clauses, appositives, and more, and how to stitch together these units using commas (or not!). Lesson 1.10: Beginning commas introduces kids to foundational comma conventions while continuing their work on fiction writing and poetry, with a particular focus on setting description. Our lessons combine original writing challenges, editing challenges, and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ End of lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.
Length: 104 pages
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child foundational writing skills.
Download our complete Level 1 curriculum, a compendium of all our Level 1 lessons plus a final test. Every lesson includes one or more video lessons, at least four robust practices, and a unit quiz. Level 1 covers the topics below, woven together with foundational storywriting and poetry writing skills. By the end of this curriculum, your child will be able to write clean and clear complex sentences with ease. We provide extensive feedback on how to give your child feedback on their work.
Included in this booklet:
✔️ Lesson 1.1: Spacing
✔️ Lesson 1.2: Ending Punctuation
✔️ Lesson 1.3: Sentences
✔️ Lesson 1.4: Capitalization
✔️ Lesson 1.5: Greek & Latin Roots 1
✔️ Lesson 1.6: Spelling 1
✔️ Lesson 1.7: Editing Sentences
✔️ Lesson 1.8: Plurals & Possessives
✔️ Lesson 1.9: Contractions
✔️ Lesson 1.10: Beginning Commas
✔️ Final test & Self-reflection
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download. Print the sections you want to use.
Length: 600 pages
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