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Showing posts with label Common Core Standards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Common Core Standards. Show all posts
Monday, September 1, 2014

Fables Teach Writing Lessons in Purpose, Clarity

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by Mary Quattlebaum Aesop’s Fables is a classic that should be part of every home and school library, not only for its centuries-long...
Monday, April 28, 2014

WHAT'S THE STORY?

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by Jane Harrington I just listened to a pretty right-on lecture about fiction writing by Jenna Blum ( The Author at Work: The Art of Wr...
Monday, March 17, 2014

WRITING IN PLACE

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by Jane Harrington Green is washing over winter’s wan fields in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where I live, teach and write. I have s...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Sprinkling on the Grammar

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by Jane Harrington November is here—leaves are blowing in circles around us, the first logs of the season are being tossed in fireplace...
Monday, July 29, 2013

WRITING AND COMMON CORE CONNECTIONS WITH SUSAN STOCKDALE

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by Mary Quattlebaum Schools are abuzz with talk of Common Core .   What are the challenges for students, teachers of writing, and th...
Monday, April 8, 2013

IT’S vs ITS: HELP!

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by Jane Harrington For those of us writers of English who were lucky enough to grow up with this language   (nothing to be taken for gr...
Monday, March 18, 2013

POETRY FRIDAY FOR POETRY MONTH

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by Jacqueline Jules           The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School is here! And just in time for April and Poetry Month. Th...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Getting to the Core of the Writing

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by Jane Harrington Too many words! You already said that! I often want to scribble those complaints across essays I get from my Col...