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Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: Wednesday Writing Workout: Celebrate Children's Book Week!
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Wednesday Writing Workout: Celebrate Children's Book Week! Posted by Esther Hershenhorn. Happy Children’s Book Week! Since 1919, this national literacy initiative, the longest-running in our history and co-anchored by the Children’s Book Council. And Every Child A Reader. Has celebrated books for young people and the joy of reading. To learn the bounty of events and activities that commemorate this once-a-year week and to read more about this year’s poster creator, Grace Lee.
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Poetry « April Halprin Wayland – Children's Book Author & Poet
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Hi there, Poets and Poetry Devourers (yum, yum! And April Halprin Wayland). Read “Counting Out Rhyme” by Mary Ann Hoberman (…watch to the very end! Robyn Hood Black,. Cook up poetry from the Poetry Friday Anthologies. For a workshop at the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (See Publishers Weekly. What’s New with My Poetry (What’s new with My Books is here. That one of my poems introduces the second edition of Sylvia Vardell. When Mom Plays Just for Me. Poetry doesn’t ha...
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Poetry « April Halprin Wayland – Children's Book Author & Poet
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Hi there, Poets and Poetry Devourers (yum, yum! And April Halprin Wayland). Read “Counting Out Rhyme” by Mary Ann Hoberman (…watch to the very end! Robyn Hood Black,. Cook up poetry from the Poetry Friday Anthologies. For a workshop at the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (See Publishers Weekly. What’s New with My Poetry (What’s new with My Books is here. That one of my poems introduces the second edition of Sylvia Vardell. When Mom Plays Just for Me. Poetry doesn’t ha...
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Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: Writing Workouts
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Have been a regular TeachingAuthors. Feature since early on in our blog. We invite writers to try these writing exercises to develop their writing skills, and we encourage classroom teachers to use them with their students. The above logo- a set of barbells and a ribbon with a medal- is meant to represent how everyone who works out with us is a winner. Or on the above image, to see all posts containing Writing Workouts. Beginning in January, 2013, we separated our Writing Workouts. Enter your email addre...
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Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: How I Spent My Summer Vacation and Loved Every Minute of It
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Monday, July 27, 2015. How I Spent My Summer Vacation and Loved Every Minute of It. Posted by mary ann rodman. On July 3, I saw my first "back-to-school" ad. Outside it was 97 degrees. On TV, children dressed in sweaters and boots did handsprings over the notion of new notebooks and backpacks. Starting out with one camp per summer in downtown Atlanta (the commute alone would kill you), I moved on to two camps with my local parks department (zero commute! These are creative days, where my writers can cont...
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Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: Using Repetition in Poetry
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Using Repetition in Poetry. Posted by JoAnn Early Macken. In Esther’s last post. She pointed out a series of “re-” words related to Kate Messner. 8217;s Real Revision. I’ll add another: Repetition. Along with rhythm and rhyme, it’s one of the three important patterns in poetry that I discuss in Write a Poem Step by Step. By the way, we’re giving away an autographed copy! See below to enter for your chance to win! Here’s an excerpt from the book:. Blowing in the Wind. Write A P...
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Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: And the Winner is…or How I Learned I’d Won!
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Friday, January 15, 2010. And the Winner is…or How I Learned I’d Won! Posted by April Halprin Wayland. I almost deleted the email. It came from my website and the subject header was, “Question for You”…as in Blessed One, How much money can you send to my cancer-ridden mother in Nigeria? But I opened it:. Please give me a call when you get a chance. I wanted to ask you a question about your book. Kathe Pinchuck, Chair. Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee. Association of Jewish Libraries. And here’s t...
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Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: Teachers
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Are very honored to be featured in Dr. Roxanne Owens's column in the Spring 2015 Issue of the Illinois Reading Council Journal. Here are links to the posts she references:. April's January 29, 2010 WWW post on One-Minute Journals. April's February 24, 2012 WWW post on Writing a Lingo Journals. Esther's October 21, 2011 WWW post on Writing a THANKU. Carmela's November 21, 2012 post on Writing a Tetractys. JoAnn's April 16, 2010 WWW post on List Poems. Shared the following resources as part of our ". Child...
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Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: What Writing Conferences Can Do For You
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Friday, July 24, 2015. What Writing Conferences Can Do For You. Posted by Carla Killough McClafferty. The topic of a few TA blog posts this summer will deal with conferences and other types of summer learning experiences. JoAnn Early Macken has a fascinating post about tending monarch butterflies in her garden, Summer Science Experiments. Esther Hershenhorn detailed some of the great blog posts she is working on this summer in One Writer’s Nuggets from Her Summer… So Far. They are an exciting adventure.
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