By Adrin Fisher Not to date myself, but when I was in eighth grade, there was this thing called diagramming sentences. There was a lot of diagramming sentences in my English class: we headed to the blackboard and grabbed some chalk with our homework papers held in sweaty fists, filling Read more…
Penny Kittle absolutely ruined reading for me five years ago. You heard me. Destroyed it. In the summer of 2013, at the University of New Hampshire Literacy Institutes, Penny taught me how to read like a writer. Our class studied short poems and discussed the deliberation of the author’s diction with Read more…
by Cheryl Stahle Can you imagine being only allowed to write 500 words every SIX MONTHS? In the recently released book, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela, readers explore an intimate portrait of this complicated activist, husband, and father who for 27 years, found ways to communicate to the outside Read more…
BY: LIZ KEIPER This year, one of my teacher-goals was to get my students to write more. If you’re anything like past-self me, when you’re in the middle of a novel unit, you get so wrapped up in during-reading and between-reading activities that you wake up one morning and say, Read more…
BY: LIZ KEIPER I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. -Elizabeth Edwards This year, my New School Year Resolution was to assign more writing to my students while at the same time increasing their positive attributions towards writing and their view of themselves as writers. Wait, Read more…