The June Writers Academy Blog
Your guide to supporting your child’s development as a writer and thinker.
Parent Tips: Self-Assessment
We frequently ask your child to compare their answers to ours and then record themselves explaining any differences.
Parent Tips: Lesson 2.8
Lesson 2.8 is about writing paragraph content in chronological order, but it’s also about teaching kids to think about the best ways to organize their thoughts.
Play With Words: No Smoking, Drinking, Eating, or Graffiti
What new words and phrases can you make with “No Smoking, Drinking, Eating, or Graffiti?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Get Paid To Sleep
What new words and phrases can you make with “Get Paid To Sleep?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Push Button For Walk Signal
What new words and phrases can you make with “Push Button For Walk Signal?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Not A Through Street
What new words and phrases can you make with “Not A Through Street?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Cross Traffic Ahead
What new words and phrases can you make with “Cross Traffic Ahead?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Road Closed To Vehicles
What new words and phrases can you make with “Road Closed To Vehicles?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Look Out For Traffic
What new words and phrases can you make with “Look Out For Traffic?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Sample Practice: Level 3
Practice 3.8.3: Playing the Believing Game 1 is the first half of a big new skill for kids: critical analysis of the content and form of a text. The Believing and Doubting Games ask kids to play pretend and first, imagine that they believe absolutely everything in the text and use that believing brain to analyze what the text is saying and doing.
Sample Practice: Level 2
In Practice 2.3.3: Creating Argument Sentences, we teach kids to build argument sentences that already contain two layers of thought.
Sample Practice: Roots
See what a typical Greek and Latin roots practice looks like in our curriculum.
Parent Tips: Practices 5.2.2-5.2.4
In Chapter 5, we introduce your child to a more complex editing system—a system not usually taught until high school or college, if ever.
Play With Words: No Parking In Red
What new words and phrases can you make with “No Parking In Red?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Road Work Ahead
What new words and phrases can you make with “Road Work Ahead?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Play With Words: Please Do Not Hold The Doors
What new words and phrases can you make with “Please Do Not Hold The Doors?”
Our free wordplay videos are fun ways to help your blossoming reader fall in love with words. Watch for inspiration and then find your own signs to play with out in the world!
Parent Tips: Lesson 1.10
When we teach comma conventions, or any writing convention, we acknowledge that adults don’t always agree on everything.
Parent Tips: Lesson 4.4
Take a deep breath because you’re about to walk into sacred kid territory: emotional formatting. As you no doubt know, most kids love emojis, wild colors, varied fonts, bolded words, etc., and they’re not willing to give up these simple joys without a fight.