The Story Behind The Write Foundation
The Write Foundation writing curriculum is a result of 8 years of successfully teaching homeschooled students in a one-day-per-week co-op setting. It has been adapted for a homeschool and used by numerous homeschooling parents to give their own children the tools of how to quickly organize and write an essay with excellence.
Rebecca Celsor was born in California while her father finished seminary, and reared in Texas and Colorado. After college, she taught language arts in a public school. During that seven years, she became more and more frustrated with the increased restrictions put on public school teachers. Unnecessary procedures greatly increased the administrative work and took away from time to teach writing. "Homeschooling" was way out on the fringe; it was just assumed that the Celsor children would attend the local public school.
Pioneers in home education led the way in the 1980’s, and during the public discussion of the merits of homeschooling, it became clear that many home educated students achieved excellence. So beginning with her children ages 6, 4, and 3, using Abeka and Bob Jones curriculum, Rebecca hesitantly decided to try the “homeschool” thing for a year. And then another. "I'll try it" led to a firm conviction of the benefits of teaching her own children at home, realizing she had been home schooling since their birth. She ended up home schooling her children all the way through high school. Along the way she taught five other children in her own home.
After 5 years as a home educator, she was asked to lead a Christian homeschool support group. A couple of years later, she helped organize a homeschool volunteer co-op and taught creative writing. The hunt was on for a writing curriculum with organized lesson plans, suitable for homeschool classes in a co-op setting. She first attended a writing institute. It was quite frustrating to shop for just one curriculum. Many of the available curricula had strengths, but none had exactly what she wanted. So she began to develop her own lesson plans, all the time talking to other homeschool moms about their needs, frustrations and how lost they felt in teaching writing to their own children.
Many writing curricula focus on the different types of writing, such as creative writing, story writing, poetry writing, persuasive writing, argumentative writing, informative writing, descriptive writing, book writing, fiction writing, novel writing, but the basic foundation of writing is assumed. The Write Foundation begins with the writing process, how a student formulates a topic, then a thesis, then supporting points, and by incremental teaching drills in the basics. In most grammatical subjects, we have found that failure is almost totally because the basics have not been learned.
The Write Foundation writing curriculum is a result of 8 years of successfully teaching homeschooled students in a one-day-per-week co-op setting. It has been adapted for a homeschool and used by numerous homeschooling parents to give their own children the tools of how to quickly organize and write an essay with excellence.