Pencils, Words & Kids
Description
How & why to write, for kids and their mentors.
Learning to write is like weight lifting, every repetition makes you stronger. This app is a How To guide for kids and their mentors to get the words flowing. This app is not about grammar and spelling. It's good for all ages, like a one room schoolhouse.
The creative writing process is presented in 81 entries and 203 photos of kids writing, original artwork, and inspiring scenes. The photos show what real writing looks like and will fuel brainstorming for stories, essays and poems.
The Pencils, Words & Kids creative writing process engages young writers through 7 filters:
- Be a Reader First
- How & why to write
- How to use this app
- Kids speak about writing
- Prompts
- Responding to creative writing
- Sharing
The prompts are friendly, in depth, and re-usable, riddled with vocabulary and a smattering of arts-n-crafts. The 'Pencils, Words, & Kids' app is extremely helpful to parents, mentors, educators and homeschoolers who want to rev up composition lessons, and for writers who want to develop their voice.
Entries include:
- Permission to be creative
- Be a reader first
- Take my character, please
- What to write about
- Slow it down
- "Dialogue"
- Repetir!
- You eat it, who cooks it?
- Maps & Perspective
- Ekphrastic rhymes with fantastic!
- Don't shoot yer eye out
- Purely Visual
- Advice from Kids
- and commentary from authors & writers on the childhood books that inspired them to write.
To summarize — creative writing is any writing that is not boring!
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Pencils, Words & Kids | $4.99 | Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. |
This creative writing app emphasizes writing by hand and reading. The writing prompts are funny and inspirational– and visual, with lots of photos of kids writing, and close-ups of their work too. One section is all about reading– book recommendations from writers about the books that inspired them to write. It’s also important to note that the writing prompts and projects were not developed for honors students, but were also used with low-scoring students in underachieving rural schools. Creative writing is like weight lifting, every repetition makes you stronger!