Step 1: Adventure Quest - Ages 8-12

Does your kid draw a blank when it comes to writing essays, yet spends hours telling fanciful stories, playing video games, or discussing superhero cartoons?

Adventure Quest to the rescue! This comprehensive 8-week creative writing course teaches your kids writing skills through fun literature based activities and writing short stories. They will build their vocabulary, learn grammar, develop writing skills, and a whole lot more. It's so fun, they won't even realize it's schoolwork!

No Prep - Hands Off - Super Fun

This quest is recommended for kids 8-12 or beginning writers to unleash their creativity.

Don't just take our word for it, see what other students and parents had to say!

It was great to see my kids enjoying a writing class so much! - Janice D. Parent
I liked the side quests a LOT they were really fun, especially the one with the pirates! And I liked learning about the parts of a story! - Belle, Student age 12

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What's included

  • 10 creative writing and grammar lessons
  • 4 vocabulary building activities
  • 7 fun literature based activities
  • 13 printable and interactive worksheets

Lessons:

  • Making an outline
  • The Story Quest short story template
  • How to write an adventure story
  • How to conquer writer's block
  • The Hero's Journey story structure
  • How to write a letter to an author
  • Grammar lessons on nouns, verbs, punctuation and capitalization

Fun literature based activities including:

  • All season's scavenger hunt printables
  • Making an origami paper boat craft
  • Treasure Island book club questions
  • Treasure Island party game
  • Movies to watch and compare to books
  • Peter Pan book club questions
  • How to create a music playlist for a story
  • How to write poetry with secret messages
  • How to draw a map

Vocabulary building activities:

  • Nautical terms word search
  • Pirate slang vocabulary test
  • Peter Pan word search
  • Peter Pan vocabulary test

Making new friends can be challenging! That why we created a safe, private community for your kids to be able to make friends with other children who enjoy writing as much as they do. Our community is not only safe, but it’s also monitored by our team of experienced moderators who ensure that all interactions are respectful and appropriate. 

Parents are more than welcome to join us as well! We know how important it is for parents to feel secure in the online spaces their children frequent. That's why we have created a platform that encourages healthy socialization while maintaining strict security protocols for younger members. 

Students will read two books, the classic Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and Peter Man by J.M. Barrie. These books are available for free online as ebooks and audiobooks. We recommend fully illustrated abridged classics for ages 8-12 and beginning readers. 

We provide book club questions and topics to discuss in our private community along with fun literature based activities and family-friendly movies and TV shows to fully immerse them in great literature.

Hi there, I’m Amelia DeField

I'm a professional copywriter, a homeschool advocate, and short story author. I live in Northern Idaho with my family and my big dog, Teddy Bear. For the past twelve years, I have worked as a business consultant and copywriter for Small Town and Rural, a design and marketing agency. When I'm not writing or reading something, you can find me painting birds or gardening.

The Writing Academy I Wish Existed When I Was Young

I created the Story Quest Academy because I have a genuine passion for fiction writing, empowering young writers to tell their stories and sharing what I've learned from nine years as a professional writer. I believe everyone has a story to tell and I want to help them say it well.

Meet the rest of the team here!

At Story Quest Academy, we think constructive feedback is the best way to grow as a writer. Every student gets a FREE story evaluation from one of our instructors. This includes a filled out copy of the story evaluation workbook plus basic grammar and spelling corrections. 

Exclusive Rewards

You will receive an exclusive reward from Story Quest Academy to give your young writer once they complete their writing quest! These rewards will help to incentivize them to write and keep them motivated to finish their stories!

BONUS #1: Fantasy World-Building: Basic Building Blocks Workbook

Rich and vibrant fantasy worlds are one of my favorite things in fiction. World-building is something you could spend your whole life developing. The best way to start building your world is filling in the broad strokes before adding the little details so this bonus workbook will be walking you through the basic building blocks of fantasy world-building.

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Story Quest Academy Blog

Find tips and tricks to boost your child's imagination and cultivate their creativity on our blog!

Get Inspired and Plan Your Story

In this week's lesson, we will be talking about planning your story. Get your Story Quest prompt and start brainstorming ideas!

Book club selection: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Downloadable: Outline worksheet

Write Your Story + Conquering Writer's Block

This week, you will start writing your short story, learn ten tips to conquer your Writer's Block, the essential elements of an adventure, a nature scavenger hunt, and nautical terms in Treasure Island!

Downloadables: Writing tracker, All Seasons Nature Scavenger Hunt, and Nautical Terms Word Search

Learn About Nouns & Capitalization and Make A Paper Boat

This week, we will be learning about the "nouns", how to make a paper boat, and pirate slang in Treasure Island.

Treasure Island Book Club Activities

Get the questions and topics for your book club discussion of Treasure Island, watch a Treasure Island movie, and get a fresh perspective from your story by taking a break with a fun pirate-themed party game!

Learn about The Hero's Journey and Read Peter Pan

Submit your story and get a fun BONUS quest! This week, we will learn about the Hero's Journey.

Book Club Selection: Peter Pan

Learn About Secret Words in Poetry and Verbs

This week, we'll be editing our short story and writing a poem to add to it! You'll also learn about verbs and how to avoid common grammar errors. We'll also go over unfamiliar words in Peter Pan.

Downloadable: Hidden Poetry worksheet

Learn about The Ordinary World and Draw A Map

This week, we'll learn about the first step in the Hero's Journey: The Ordinary World. We'll also be drawing a map of the adventure your character embarked on and taking a vocabulary quiz for Peter Pan!

Peter Pan Book Club Activities

It's time to discuss Peter Pan with your Book Club, watch a movie, and write a letter to Peter Pan.

Downloadable: Write a Letter To Peter Pan template

BONUS: Fantasy World-Building Workbook

Rich and vibrant fantasy worlds are one of my favorite things in fiction. World-building is something you could spend your whole life developing. The best way to start building your world is filling in the broad strokes before adding the little details so this workbook will be walking you through the basic building blocks of fantasy world-building.

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