Free Month-Long Writing Book From Character Ink Press!

Most of you know me by now. And you know that writing, along with parenting, is a true love of mine. I began writing curriculum for a home school publishing company out of Chicago twenty years ago—then we opened our own small press publishing company fifteen years ago. And, in total, I have written over 100 books and 50,000 pages. (It didn’t seem like that many since I just wrote a little every day of my life!)

A small portion of that has been our parenting book, parenting seminar, blog posts, etc. However, most of that has been language arts, writing, reading, spelling, speech, debate, etc., materials. (I’ll post links to the ones at our store in the P.S. below!)

For today, I wanted to give you a free sampling of my Directed Writing Approach. You can choose the book/level you would like out of one of my monthly downloads. (So far, we have our Book-Movie-Book monthly downloads up—writing projects based on old books that are modern movies—and now made into “books” again for kids! So much fun!)

In all of my books I use the same approach—the aforementioned Directed Writing Approach. This means that every lesson is laid out in a directed manner. No guess work. No vagueness. No writing prompts. The writing projects take students from start to finish with every skill that the student needs to complete the project included in the lessons.

I love teaching kids—and I love seeing the light bulbs go off—and seeing them succeed in their writing. (Oh, and my books are tested in our local Cottage Class programs by over 100 kids each semester!)

I hope you enjoy this FREEBIE—print it off and use it with your students or with a small group. They are fun and interesting….kids love them! (And so do parents!)

Be sure to get yours by August 15….the freebie will come down then.

Click HERE to get your FREE book!!

Here are the ones to choose from:

This Level I book is designed for elementary students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment): Beginning Writing Boxes—The Jungle Book story; Paragraph House Outlining and Descriptive Writing—Animals of the Jungle; Sentence-by-Sentence Outline Over Given Material: Meet the Characters From The Jungle Book.

This Level II book is designed for upper elementary/middle school students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment): Retelling Given Story; Finish-This-Scene Original Story; and Original First Person Essay From Character’s Viewpoint.

This Level III book is designed for junior high students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment): Expanded Writing Boxes With Beauty and Beast Story and Original Essay of Three Castle Objects You Would Choose as Friends.

This Level IV book is designed for beginning high school students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment): Sentence-by-Sentence Outline and Story Over Expanded Beauty and Beast Story, Part I; Original Comparative Descriptive Essay—Before and After the Beast and the Prince; and Original Research Report on Something From Beauty and Beast’s World.

This Level V book is designed for upper high school students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment): Predator and Prey Original Short Story; Original Comparative Descriptive Writing–Before and After– Mowgli and Shere Khan; and Original Expository Essay–Character Analysis of a Jungle Book Character.