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Creativity and Pretend Play to Write Stories and Create Plots
Children are natural born story tellers. While they still have this amazing gift, take time to encourage it. I was appalled one day to realize that I had lost the gift of pretend play when my daughters...
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Back to School Bash Facebook Party; Thousands of Dollars in Prizes
Be sure to mark your calendar for the Back to School Bash Facebook Party, Thursday, August 1st at Home Educating Family. Thousands of $$$$ in home educating prizes from over twenty companies. Injoy,...
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A Fun Game to Encourage Creative Writing
A fun and easy way to explore creative writing is to write a fable. A fable is a short story, often less than 200 words. Here is a fun activity to help your child write a fable. Let your child name...
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4 Tips About How To Use Quotation Marks Correctly for Dialogue
Dialogue is the conversation that your characters have within your story. Oh, and you can spell it dialog or dialogue. Dialog is the U.S. spelling, dialogue is the British spelling. I like dialogue!...
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Creating an Author Bio
Every writer needs to write a bio or a biography that tells a little about them. When you submit your fable to the Fable Writing Contest, you’ll also submit a bio; if we select your fable for the...
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Fable Writing Checklist
During the Summer Writing Program, you have: Learned a story needs a beginning, middle, and end. Selected two clever characters for your fable. Put your characters into an interesting situation Given...
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Writing in Different Styles
What is style? We create labels to kind of describe a style so that when we say punk you have an idea of the type of fashion or hairstyle or makeup might be associated with punk. And if we say...
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How To Write A Fable
Need a refresher of the Summer Writing Program? This 8 week program contains eight writing lessons with activities that can be used by students in all grade levels to learn how to write a fable. This...
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How To Homeschool Science Without a Curriculum
When I first started homeschooling, I didn’t know what curriculum to choose, and the thought of spending big bucks on something that I’d be stuck with for a year was a little overwhelming. Since I’d...
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Free Ways to Learn 10 Subjects
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Who Gives Their Kid a Bike They Have to Assemble?
I was so excited when I unwrapped the box and realized my parents had gotten me the bike I had been hinting about for months. I wanted to ride it right away, and ran to get my coat. But Dad stopped me...
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