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The pleasure of writing for growth and fun

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April 28, 2015

Buried Treasure: X Marks the Spot

Before students write a story, ask them to draw an illustrated map. Visualizing, creating, drawing, painting, coloring, and discussing a map stimulates the imagination in ways that words sometimes cannot. It worked for Robert Louis Stevenson (1854-1894), who spent a rainy day with his son drawing this map, which inspired his masterpiece Treasure Island: This marvelous text in Continue reading

Arts, History and Social Science, Storytelling, Teaching and Learning

children, education, illustration, writing
September 6, 2012

That Good News

Want to know the best way to involve parents? Send home good news about their child before the first week is out. And there’s no better way than to have students write it themselves. With writing now taught across the curriculum, every teacher can do it. Even if you only have fifteen minutes, it’s time Continue reading

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