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Marvelous Middle Grade Monday is hosted by Greg Pattridge. You can find the participating blogs on his blog. Upcoming Interviews, Guest Posts, and Blog Hops Wednesday, February 5th I have an interview with Shelly Page and a giveaway of her YA Brewed With Love and my IWSG postMonday, ...
Word Grade s K - 3 Plus Plan Primary Weekly Poetry Guide - Week 1 Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom. Word Grade s K - 3 Plus Plan Elements of Poetry - Figurative Language An activity to help students understand figurative la...
No matter the age of your children, you can use these picture books to teach literary techniques. However, since I don’t begin formal writing lessons until 5th or 6th grade, I only casually mention the literary techniques to elementary students. So, yes, you read correctly…When it comes ...
You can learn the basic elements of drawing or cooking, if you want to. We’re going to see that motivating people works that way too. It has very little to do with having a big-stage personality. In fact, sometimes that big-stage personality doesn’t work as well with normal people....
Nick Martell was born in Guelph, Ontario, where he lived for 7 years before moving to Huntington, New York. After falling in love with a book namedFrindleby Andrew Clements, Nick started writing in 5th grade, beginning to explore the world that would fully emerge inThe Kingdom of Liarsand...
Imagery (Sensory Language) This is when what is written appeals to your senses in a way that makes you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel what is being described. It is often achieved through figurative language. Foreshadowing A hint within the narrative about what is to come What does this...
this is fantasy—this is a sort of magic.” It wasn’t until I was getting ready to query my manuscript that I started to question whether or not it was okay that I did that. It turned out to be one of the things that drew agents to my book. They felt that those elements made ...
This essay, co-written by adult and child researchers, marks an important shift in the field of children’s literature studies because it promotes an academic practice in which children are actively involved in decision-making. In our polyphonic account of the collaboration, we draw on the ideas...
showing contextual awareness, and supporting claims with textual evidence. While the Socratic seminar format generates lively discussions, the sole focus on questions prevents students from preparing textual evidence for specific literary elements in the analysis. In the TQE seminar, some students react ...