Welcome to Our Weekly Writing Challenge homeschool course

Getting Started with Our Weekly Writing Challenge Homeschool Course

This course offers multiple writing challenges for students to get their creative juices flowing and practice their writing skills. Using one challenge per week, various topics important to writing are covered such as character formation, setting, point of view, genres, and more. They are given the opportunity to brainstorm, edit, and rewrite.

Course Outline of Weekly Writing Challenge

• Week One: The Importance of Writing
• Week Two: The Best Place to Write
• Week Three: Points of View
• Week Four: Points of View (First Person)
• Week Five: Points of View (Third Person)
• Week Six: Points of View (Second Person)
• Week Seven: Brainstorm
• Week Eight: Characters
• Week Nine: Characters
• Week Ten: Setting
• Week Eleven: Setting
• Week Twelve: Problem/Challenge
• Week Thirteen: Problem/Challenge
• Week Fourteen: Finding the Solution
• Week Fifteen: Finding the Solution
• Week Sixteen: Dialogue
• Week Seventeen: Write a Story
• Week Eighteen: Beginnings
• Week Nineteen: Beginnings
• Week Twenty: Endings
• Week Twenty-One: Endings
• Week Twenty-Two: Details
• Week Twenty-Three: Details
• Week Twenty-Four: Details
• Week Twenty-Five: Synonyms
• Week Twenty-Six: Verb Tenses
• Week Twenty-Seven: Nouns and Verbs
• Week Twenty-Eight: Show, Don’t Tell
• Week Twenty-Nine: Genres
• Week Thirty: Letter or Card
• Week Thirty-One: News Article
• Week Thirty-Two: Bible Devotion
• Week Thirty-Three: Bible Skit
• Week Thirty-Four: Revise and Rewrite

Course Sample for Weekly Writing Challenge

Welcome to Writing Challenge!

This course offers multiple writing challenges for you to get your creative juices flowing and practice your writing skills.

Looking at how other books are written can help authors with their own writings. For that reason, you will need to choose a book beginning with Challenge 8 to study a main character, setting, problem/challenge, and solutions to the problem or challenge. Even a picture book can be used for these challenges as long as it has a main character, setting, problem/challenge, and a solution to the problem or challenge that can be written about.

I hope you enjoy each of the writing challenges presented within this course and that you are able to learn a little something about writing in the process.

Please grab a notebook and writing utensil. Are you ready? Let’s begin!

Challenge 1: The Importance of Writing

Do you think writing is important? Why or why not?

Please make sure to write your answers to these questions in your notebook before reading the rest of this page.

How many sentences did you write to answer these questions?

I think writing is very important. Think of all the things you read.
Books, newspaper articles, greeting cards, signs, songs,
directions for games, and much more may not exist
without someone writing them.

Even people who don’t have jobs as authors or writers need to
know how to write. People may need to write a resume to get a job.
They may have to write emails or letters to other people they work with.
Can you think of other things people may need to write?

You may write entries in a journal, emails, texts, thank you cards,
get well cards, essays, short stories, and so much more.

Writing things down can help you remember them better.
Writing can also make you more creative as you use your imagination to write.
Have you ever gotten a card written by someone you love?
Writing can encourage and inspire others.
Think of your favorite books. Writing can be entertaining.
Writing can also be educational and help you learn.

It’s hard to imagine a world with no writing. Isn’t it?

To view a full sample of this course, click here.