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Writing Activity: novels in the form of letters, inspired by Jane Austen’s childhood writing

Post Published October 7, 2016 by William Rubel

Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the the greatest novelists to have written in English. Her novels are still widely read and have been adapted into movies and television series.
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Writing Activity: adopting a style through unusual language, with “Once Upon a Time” by Robin Eldred, 6

Post Published June 16, 2016 by Jane Levi

Introduction to This Stone Soup Writing Activity “Once Upon a Time” is an example of a story written in unusual English. This work is by a six-year-old and is a good example of how young children ...
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Using the Young Adult Author Resource Pages

Post Published June 10, 2016 by William Rubel

Writers are readers. The purpose of the Young Adult Author Resource Pages is to bring young writers closer to their favorite authors. Through social media and recorded interviews many authors offer fa...
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Time Is Short: a meditation on teaching art

Post Published April 30, 2016 by Amy Gibbs

Perhaps it's a vestige of the agricultural heritage here in the Grand Valley in western Colorado, but our school children are released for the summer in mid-May.
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Writing Process: How a Reluctant Reader Can Soar Now

Post Published March 22, 2016 by Erendira Ramirez-Ortega

I have a reluctant writer at home. My son, a fifth grader whom I homeschool, is very curious and very inquisitive in an understated way. When we take trips to the library, he immediately visits the an...
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Writing Activity: Adapting Story to Film

Post Published May 25, 2015 by William Rubel

I found a project through Twitter for teaching students to think like a filmmaker. The project, for grades 6 to 8, is written by Judy Storm Fink and is published at the NCTE website, readwritethink...
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Not That Story Again!

Post Published March 20, 2014 by Jenn Stefaniak

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get tired of reading the same old stories, with the same old archetypal characters and plots. The predictability of story lines is the reason I stopped read...
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Five Simple Tips for Revising

Post Published March 14, 2014 by Jenn Stefaniak

Let’s face it. Writing is fun. It’s the revising we avoid. When we first write, our pen goes wherever our ideas lead; we create characters and situations, mold them and direct them at will.
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Teach Writing with Focused Reading

Post Published February 17, 2014 by Jenn Stefaniak

When I first started homeschooling, I spent days scouring the Internet for ideas on teaching writing, and whoa, was I hit with barrages of information. It was overwhelming for sure, but I managed to w...
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Using Stone Soup to encourage students to produce inventive, creative writing

Post Published October 20, 2009 by William Rubel

Creative writing, as a term, was invented in the 19th century to express the idea that there was writing, and then there was creative writing. With use, the expression has lost meaning and now creativ...
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