Writing, Writing, and More Writing!

In our house, words matter! That is a given when Dad is an attorney and Mom is the teacher, and all the kids like to write, write, write. And right now we have a lot of reading and writing going on. Below you will find the links to some stories that the boys wrote that were published to the Scholastic website (you might have to copy and paste into your browser, since I can't make them publish as links to this blog). Chase wrote a folktale and Avery chose to write a mystery. Check them out!

Chase has some creative ideas and does a good job of descriptive writing. I really liked this story!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/folktale_readrep.asp?id=58724&age=10&Page=24&sortBy=

Avery used some great "mystery" techniques in this story (including a "red herring") and wrote a fun little story. My favorite phrases in his story are "That threw Shirley's mind into confusion." and "But, then again, Sam had a loosely bound curiosity . . . ." He seriously came up with those all on his own!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/biography_readrep.asp?id=58727&age=8&Page=5&sortBy="

In addition, Chase has also committed to participate in NaNoWriMo this month, a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month, which takes place every November. This is a program where people spend 30 days writing a novel from beginning to end with a goal of a 50,000 word count. Chase is participating in the Young Writers Program, which begins at the elementary level and allows them to choose a more age-appropriate word count. Chase's goal is for 15,000 words. He is writing a story about the descendants of a royal line that was powerful in the Middle Ages. Awesome!

Meanwhile, Courtney has caught the writing bug, too! In fact, she filled almost an entire 100 page ruled notebook with her illustrations and stories! These are mostly illustrations with one or two sentences of the story per page. She worked for hours on a story that spanned at least 50 pages which she titled, "The Sad Tale of Love" (Books I, II, and III) by Coco Merrill. Ha ha!

Who knows? Maybe we're raising the famous authors of the future!