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Classrooms, presentations, and a growing sense of ability

Ladies and Gentlemen,        As you may recall, I do not have a classroom of my own yet but will begin teaching ENG 101 in the fall.  I am…

Started by Doug Zimmerman

1 May 25, 2011
Reply by Kelly Rubero

Kim Cuevas - Multigenre Research

I no longer have a classroom of my own, but when I did, I was proud of the fact that my students always did a lot of writing and a lot of d…

Started by Kimberly Cuevas

0 Apr 29, 2011

Writing Alone and with Others

I have finished reading Pat Schneider's book Writing Alone and with Others and chose this book as it seemed to offer insight into not only…

Started by Stephen B. Duncan

5 Sep 9, 2010
Reply by Kelly Hiatt

Writer's Notebook

I chose to read A Writers Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You by Ralph Fletcher. I chose this book to continue researching ways to in…

Started by Christy

5 Sep 9, 2010
Reply by Nadyne Burra

The child as poet: myth or reality?

Livingston, M. C.  (1994)  The child as poet:  myth or reality?  Boston:  The Horn Book Cooperative   This book had many pages justifying t…

Started by carol bergin

5 Sep 9, 2010
Reply by Nadyne Burra

Deep Revision by Meredith Sue Willis

Willis, M.S. (1993). Deep revision: a guide for teachers, students, and other writers. New York: Teachers and Writer’s Collaborative. My t…

Started by Jennifer Reynolds

5 Sep 9, 2010
Reply by Nadyne Burra

Creating Young Writers: Using the six traits to enrich the writing process in primary writers

Spandel, V. (2004). Creating young writers: Using the six traits to enrich writing process in primary    classrooms. New York: Pearson.    …

Started by Rose Whistler

3 Sep 9, 2010
Reply by Kelly Hiatt

Sharing our Visions with Student Writers

I left ISI feeling inspired, excited, positively buzzing with new ideas. (Or was that strange head-in-the-clouds feeling just a symptom of…

Started by Melissa LiCon

7 Sep 9, 2010
Reply by Nadyne Burra

Urbanski's Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom

Hello, missed colleagues!  :)   A few questions I'd like to throw out-- 1)  What are the benefits of freewriting as a tool for pre-writing/…

Started by Julianne Dillard

7 Sep 9, 2010
Reply by Nadyne Burra

Reviving the Essay by Gretchen Bernabei

I decided to steal Carol’s book and read Reviving the Essay by Gretchen Bernabei, which offered many practical strategies to “teach structu…

Started by Nicole Marvin

7 Sep 7, 2010
Reply by Christy

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