Climbing the Ladder of Reading and Writing Nancy Young & Jan Hasbrouck, Eds. I love this treasure of a book! It features an all-star cast of contributing authors who address how to differentiate to meet the needs of all learners – whether they are below or above grade level, or have...
I had to get out my ladder from the garage and prop it up on the front porch and climb up on the roof. It was dangerous. I weigh 240 pounds. If I fell I would die. Today was the day. I am going to tell him off and fire him. He pulled up on his bike, which was on its...
I had to get out my ladder from the garage and prop it up on the front porch and climb up on the roof. It was dangerous. I weigh 240 pounds. If I fell I would die. Today was the day. I am going to tell him off and fire him. He pulled up on his bike, which was on its...
First serialised in The Saturday Evening Post in 1920, The Young Immigrunts abandons the plot of Ashford’s book and its musings on social advancement and the aristocracy and replaces them with something completely American: the story of the Lardner family’s move from Goshen, Indiana, to their...
Actual polls show the surprisingly contrary data that the black woman is mo’ popular with young black men than the white supremacist. E’en mo’ surprising, despite writing so many articles ’bout the Israeli-Palestinian War & the US’s role in it, this article makes no mention o’ the ...
In India, Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of giving her young daughter an education and will go to any length to make that happen, including leaving behind all she knows in search of a better future. In Sicily, Giulia works in her father’s wig workshop, the last of its kind in...
He went back and got his stepladder from the garage, unfolded it against the fence, and stood on the first rung. Yes, there was something there, a solid piece of redwood against the fence that he had built. He climbed the second rung and peered down. Another piece of wood next to ...
and another pattern around the stones.Then she connected that to the larger work of reading and writing saying:Writers often use patterns to try to show us something they don’t want to come right out and say, and I think it’s possible that the writer actually wants you to pick up all...
My Dad worked for a large corporation and was transferred frequently as he climbed the company ladder. At the end of the school year, the moving van would appear at our house, but before we moved into our new home, we returned to the same summer vacation spot in northern Minnesota. Year...
“I signed with Beth Marshea of Ladderbird Literary Agency! I pitched her at the 2018 Florida Writing Workshop. It was a perfect match.” –writer Erica Shaw “I attended the 2017 Alabama Writing Workshop. With the instruction I received at your conference, I was better prepared to submi...