The June Writers Academy Blog
Your guide to supporting your child’s development as a writer and thinker.
Live Help Hours Update: Fall 2024
We’ve updated our Live Help Hours for the new school year.
Live Help Hours Update: Summer 2024
We’re updating our Live Help Hours for summer learning.
Summer Plan: Boost Your Child’s Writing
If you’re looking for a way for your child to improve their writing over the summer, June Writers has three excellent new options for you based on our child- and parent-approved regular program. Registration for our summer programs opens May 1st.
New Features: Instant skill checks and much more!
We’re rolling out three new features. Take a look!
News: Level 5 lessons now live!
We’re thrilled to announce that lessons from Level 5: Advanced Solo Editing are now live on our private membership site!
New Feature: Schoolwork & Application Help
Does your child need support writing or editing an assignment for school or an application? We are now happy to offer support for planning & content development, translating pre-writing work into a draft, and editing as an optional service included in our standard membership program at no extra charge.
Launch News: Level 4 lessons now available!
If you’ve been itching to get your kid to finally (yes, a split infinitive) tighten up the mechanics of their writing—no more misplaced commas and complicated subjunctive clauses, etc.—this is the summer to realize your goal.
Launch News: Level 4 will begin rolling out June 2, 2023
We’ve been hard at work producing Level 4: Grammar & Punctuation for Life, which teaches kids all about grammar and advanced punctuation. Check out our recent blog post about why and how we teach grammar here. If you’ve been itching to get your kid to finally (yes, a split infinitive) tighten up the mechanics of their writing—no more misplaced commas and complicated subjunctive clauses, etc.—this is the summer to realize your goal.
The (unusual) case for teaching grammar
We’ve begun production of Level 4: Grammar & Punctuation for Life, which teaches kids how to understand and use grammatical concepts and advanced punctuation. Levels one through three also cover foundational grammatical and punctuation concepts and skills, and we give mechanical feedback to kids on most practices. So, Level 4: Grammar & Punctuation for Life is not an island of mechanical learning in our program, but Level 4 will be where we help kids wrap their heads around what grammar means in the context of the rest of their life, why it’s useful to know, and how to use it with ease.
News: Level 3 is now live!
Level 3: Texts Under Scrutiny is now live!
If your child struggles with or is ready to take on analytical reading and writing about challenging non-fiction texts, Level 3 is their rocket to success. Your child will learn:
News: Two big user experience improvements launching March 20th!
On March 20th, we will launch both Level 3: Texts Under Scrutiny and two big user experience improvements to our central content hub. Our goal with this new launch is to make it easier for you to get exactly what you need for your child(ren) from the June Writers curriculum. Here’s what to expect.
Launch News: Level 3 Available March 20th
We’re excited to announce that Level 3: Texts Under Scrutiny will be available beginning March 20, 2023.
If your child struggles with or is ready to take on analytical reading and writing about challenging non-fiction texts, Level 3 is their rocket to success. Your child will learn:
Level 2: Arguments In Microcosm is live!
Level 2: Lists & Paragraphs is now live on junewriters.com!
New user features! Say hello to the central content hub.
Over the last few months, we’ve been hard at work producing our Level 2 content. As part of that process, we’ve used your feedback to develop a new set of user experience improvements that reflect how our existing families—children and parents—want to be able to navigate our content.
Gift cards now available!
This holiday season, give the gift of writing to the amazing children in your life.
Launch News: Level 2 Available January 2, 2023!
If your child is bringing home paragraphs that are unexamined facts strung together with phrases such as “first,” “in conclusion,” or “in my opinion,” or routinely writes texts that are riddled with mechanical errors, then Chapter 2 is for you!