by Karen Leggett Abouraya There was a time before Facebook and Flickr when people mailed picture postcards to friends and family as the...

by Mary Quattlebaum How might you encourage students (of any age) to attend to language?  To begin to delight in and revise for sound...

by Ashley Alison Formento You may visit exciting new places or spend time seeing family on summer vacation. Wherever you travel, you...

by Jacqueline Jules When I began writing my picture book, Picnic at Camp Shalom , I had a problem. For marketing reasons, my editor r...

by Jacqueline Jules I remember the first time I was introduced to graphic organizers. It was a professional development day early in my...

by Joan Waites The weather here in the Mid-Atlantic is still relatively warm, and right now it’s raining, not snowing. But this time ...

by Mary Quattlebaum Laura Krauss Melmed posted about having students write from what’s looming large in their lives at any given moment...

by Jacqueline Jules At Thanksgiving time, many classrooms enjoy persuasive writing. A very popular writing prompt is the DON’T EAT ME lett...

by Mary Quattlebaum We’re now in that “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” so beautifully described by John Keats; and with pumpk...

by Pam Smallcomb I remember when I decided to focus on my writing, and I attended my first SCBWI Writer’s Conference. It seemed to me tha...

by Laura Melmed In recent days we’ve viewed with horror and sympathy reports of the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Ja...

by Joan Waites When presenting to students or adults about the art of picture book illustration, I’m often met with surprise when I describ...

by Mary Quattlebaum I don’t know what to write!  Have you heard this wail from your students?  The five-senses exercise gives them a fun a...