We love and use BW! Here is a post I did in February about it. I’ll try to give you a short “what does what”:
1. The Writer’s Jungle is the writing handbook for mom. This immerses you in BW theory and how to coach your child through the writing process. I love it but it can be overwhelming, it is not a step by step weekly assignments sorta thing.
2. Partnership Writing (or Jot it Down for younger) IS the a weekly assignments book for 10 monthly projects. It has short sections about the Brave Writer Lifestyle too (copywork, poetry teatime, etc) and more is on the website. So you can totally just get this to start out. You do not have to do the 10 projects in order. We actually just pick and choose from here and other places, including my own head.
3. The Arrow (and similar products) focuses on using a literature book as the theme and pulls out copywork and writing mechanics type lessons. (I do NOT use these at this time. We do tons of reading aloud and tend to address their writing mechanics in their own personal writing.)
There are samples to download of everything (last I checked there is an entire Arrow so you can see what they are really like).
I have purchase ebook versions and like them, but would really love to have The Writer’s Jungle in a bound book (Not a 3 ring binder, I did print it and put in a binder, but it’s not ideal for me.) I read them on the computer, on the Kindle Fire, and I will print out a page here and there of Jot it Down or Partnership Writing if we’re working on a monthly project and I want to. Here is a post I wrote in May that shows a better idea of our process and how our writing lessons tend to ripple out and how I use other products (like a level of Write Shop Jr.) in a Brave Writer way.
Feel free to ask questions if you have more, I’ll try to check back here later today!
