Reddit mentions: The best children creative writing books

You've gotten some good suggestions for fiction and biographies, but I'd actually recommend getting her a book aimed at kids about how to write. Try Spilling Ink by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter, or one of Gail Carson Levine's books: Writing Magic or Writer to Writer.

Kids' writing books are great because they're empowering - they'll have specific writing advice, encouraging words, and activities to help kick-start her writing. I remember receiving a similar writing guide when I was that age, and it made me feel like a real professional.

(Also, I've read the Stephen King and Ursula Le Guin writing guides that other users suggested, and I wouldn't recommend those for a child at all - the advice is definitely more advanced, including complex grammar concepts, and Stephen King is brutally honest about his view that most writers will never make it. Much too discouraging for a kid.)

My first year too and I’m fourth. We are reading this and they get their own writers notebook with unlined paper to brainstorm (these are just white paper with a color card stock as the cover). I didn’t come up with this idea, a veteran teacher has helped me so sharing with you.

https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Notebook-Unlocking-Writer-Within/dp/0380784300

Also, heart maps. When they need an idea of what to write about they can reference their heart map.

https://www.wsra.org/assets/Convention/Handouts_2013/a6%20georgia%20heard%20heart%20mapping.pdf

Granted, I teach 5th graders so take whatever I say with a grain of salt with 11th graders. This book about writer's notebooks really helped see the benefit of having one. This focuses more on having a free space to write whatever they want that can snowball into a larger idea.

I say grading or looking through them every 2 weeks or so should be good but I think checking them may be hard if they're using it for notes or planning. Perhaps having a multi subject notebook or a writers notebook and a binder for notes and such could help with all the uses you want from it?

Sorry this was a little scattered (#onemoreweekofschool) but let me know if you have any questions!

OP, check out this one or this one. They both seem fun and age-appropriate to keep her inspired rather than bored. :)

Please mods let me know if this isn't allowed, I just thought you all might be interested! I also made one in dot grid/bujo format

You may want to look into the 642 Things to Write About series. I've pasted a link to the original book as well as a couple that are advertised as being for young writers:

https://www.amazon.com/Things-Write-Francisco-Writers-Grotto/dp/1452105448/

https://www.amazon.com/642-Things-Write-About-Writers/dp/1452127840/

https://www.amazon.com/642-Big-Things-Write-About/dp/1452154759/

Literally the plot to this book: The Story Pirates Present: Stuck in the Stone Age https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635650895/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_HRU3BbN7F92PA

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You're not that far off....

That is the kind of paper we used for practicing handwriting in Kindergarten.

I was commenting on your commentary of the people on your list.

I suggest you get this book so you won't have these sorts of problems in the future.

>You said that cars are necessary because going to public transit would take time, but then turned around and tried to say that we should work toward removing guns because "It's a noble goal." Why can't we work toward removing cars? If they cause more deaths (the graph I linked) then we should work toward that too, shouldn't we?

Of course it's a noble goal to remove guns; that should be blindingly obvious. I never said we shouldn't work to remove cars; I would prefer we made public transport the norm while having cars be a thing on the side (though they need to continue making them safer).

>I supplied a link contradicting that, and you dismissed it because it wasn't "severe" enough. But you didn't say anything about severity. You just said people don't, and I proved they do.

... okay, maybe I overestimated your intelligence a bit. If you honestly thought I was saying that on the entire planet there had never been any significant knife deaths, I guess I should either phrase everything as if you're five years old, or maybe not bother talking to you at all. For the record (even though it's extremely obvious), the entire point here is that if you want to kill a bunch of people, people will generally—again, obviously—choose a gun over a knife.

>Cars weren't intended to be operated by an inebriated driver. You want to argue that driving a car drunk isn't misusing that car? Fine. Show me that cars were intended to be driven by drunk drivers, and I'll concede that driving drunk does not count as "misuse."

I don't care about arguing over definitions.

>Knives and cars kill a huge number of people, and despite that, we still permit people to have them.

You once again show you can't for the life of you keep multiple concepts in your head at the same time. They're not just made for recreational use and killing; they are necessary things. I've said this multiple times now. Here, go buy this, then practice reading that while taking a dump in the bathroom so that you can get also better at focusing on multiple things at once.

>if you disarmed everyone in the United States, we wouldn't magically become Norway.

Good thing I never claimed that.

> How things worked out for Norway really has no bearing on how things would work out in the US.

That's just absolutist idiocy. Are you a libertarian or something?