Download or read book My Year of Writing written by Anne Rooney and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Year of Writing features 365 writing activities-one for each day of the year, all designed to unleash creativity. Imaginative prompts ask children to think about word associations, make up stories, create characters, tell jokes, invent their own words, and much more. When they've completed the book, they will have a souvenir of the 365 days in which they discovered their own personal creativity, fired up their imaginations, and honed their writing skills.
Download or read book My Writing Year written by Joesph Sutton and published by Joseph Sutton. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every writer at one point or another hits a bump in their literary road, the dreaded writer's block. Rather than lament his sorry fate, Sutton pledged to himself to write an essay a week about the writing process. Not only did this yearlong process keep him inspired and writing, but he has now completed an insightful, clear and gentle manual for all the other writers out there facing their own fears. This book has many wise, simple (and achievable) tips and ideas for keeping the creative juices flowing.
Download or read book My Unedited Writing Year written by Hope Lyda and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Joy of Unlimited Expression Have you always wanted to write but aren’t sure where to start? Do you feel stuck in a rut with how you spend your free time? Would you like to see your life from a new perspective? This is your time to experience the power of words. Fuel your momentum with five categories of inventive prompts: creativity jumpstarts, writing practice, fiction, life journey, and inspiration. Here are some of the unexpected encounters from your unedited writing year: There’s a Book in You—Follow simple steps toward crafting a book project. Hall Pass—Write your own permission slip to do, be, or create something you’ve held back on. Word of the Day—Indulge in a free-for-all. No rules, just writing. Your first offering is…a clean slate. Go! Pet Memoir—Write what you might read in a chapter penned by a pet you own, know, or invent. Silent Retreat—Be still for five minutes and then write about what came to your mind. These and over three hundred other activities will help you hone your craft, develop new skills, break through the block, and spark your creativity. Enjoy the journey.
Download or read book For Women Who Roar written by Megan Febuary and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Women Who Roar is a collection of poetry and prose about healing trauma and uncovering one's voice after the experience of silence. This book is split up into four parts: scars, cages, voice, and courage. Each section takes the reader through the heartache of trauma, pain, and ultimately recovery. Written by writer, writing coach, and Founder of Book Year and the magazine For Women Who Roar, for whom this poetry book prompted. I hope this collection speaks straight to your soul, the light, dark, and all the in between places. Megan Febuary is the Founder of For Women Who Roar and Book Year. As a writing coach and healing healer, she has dedicated her life to helping women write their books and heal their stories. She has published 1000+ works of women, edited and curated 10+ literary magazines, and coached hundreds of women in writing, healing trauma, and creative direction. She is currently working on her next book.
Download or read book A Year of Writing Dangerously written by Barbara Abercrombie and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration —nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and Abercrombie’s students who have gone from paralyzed to published.
Download or read book The Complete Year in Reading and Writing written by Patty Vitale-Reilly and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a detailed curriculum uniquely designed for second graders and their growing command of literacy.
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Download or read book The 12 Week Year for Writers written by A. Trevor Thrall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get more words on the page with this proven and popular system The 12 Week Year for Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done is an easy-to-implement and practical framework for writers to get more work done in less time. You’ll answer big picture questions—What is my vision for the future? What are my writing goals?—while enacting a comprehensive system to plan and execute your writing. You’ll create a 12 Week Plan and a Model Week, collaborate with a weekly writing group, keep score, and learn to stick to a weekly execution routine. The book will also show you how to: Manage multiple writing projects at the same time Develop a prolific writer’s mindset and increase your output with the 12 Week Year system Deal with actionable specifics, like when and where to write Ideal for writers in all genres and fields, The 12 Week Year for Writers is the perfect hands-on guide for academic and business writers, authors, students, columnists, bloggers, and copy and content writers who seek to increase their productivity and get more quality words on the page.
Download or read book Teaching Writing written by Tessa Daffern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century, writing is more important than at any other time in human history. Yet much of the emphasis in schooling has been on reading, and after the early years, writing skills have been given less attention. Internationally, too many children are leaving school without the writing skills they need to succeed in life. The evidence indicates that students rarely develop proficiency as writers without effective teacher instruction. Teaching Writing offers a comprehensive approach for the middle years of schooling, when the groundwork should be laid for the demanding writing tasks of senior school and the workplace. Teaching Writing outlines evidence-based principles of writing instruction for upper primary students and young adolescents. It presents strategies that are ready for adoption or adaptation, and exemplars to assist with designing and implementing writing lessons across the middle years of school. It addresses writing from a multimodal perspective while also highlighting the importance of teaching linguistic aspects of text design such as sentence structure, vocabulary and spelling as foundations for meaning-making. Contributors argue that students need to continue to develop their skills in both handwriting and keyboarding. Examples of the teaching of writing across disciplines are presented through a range of vignettes. Strategies for assessing student writing and for supporting students with diverse needs are also explored. With contributions from leading literacy educators, Teaching Writing is an invaluable resource for primary, secondary and pre-service teachers.
Download or read book The Writing Revolution written by Judith C. Hochman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why you need a writing revolution in your classroom and how to lead it The Writing Revolution (TWR) provides a clear method of instruction that you can use no matter what subject or grade level you teach. The model, also known as The Hochman Method, has demonstrated, over and over, that it can turn weak writers into strong communicators by focusing on specific techniques that match their needs and by providing them with targeted feedback. Insurmountable as the challenges faced by many students may seem, The Writing Revolution can make a dramatic difference. And the method does more than improve writing skills. It also helps: Boost reading comprehension Improve organizational and study skills Enhance speaking abilities Develop analytical capabilities The Writing Revolution is as much a method of teaching content as it is a method of teaching writing. There's no separate writing block and no separate writing curriculum. Instead, teachers of all subjects adapt the TWR strategies and activities to their current curriculum and weave them into their content instruction. But perhaps what's most revolutionary about the TWR method is that it takes the mystery out of learning to write well. It breaks the writing process down into manageable chunks and then has students practice the chunks they need, repeatedly, while also learning content.
Download or read book The Best Part of Me written by and published by Avenues. This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning photographer captures children's thoughts about their bodies in striking b&w photos and disarmingly honest words.
Download or read book Diet for a Changing Climate written by Christy Mihaly and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the vast world of unexpected foods that may help solve the global hunger crisis: weeds, wild plants, invasive and feral species, and bugs! Mihaly and Heavenrich introduce readers to the nutritional value of various plant and animal species. You'll visit a cricket farm, learn recipes for dandelion pancakes and pickled purslane; and discover facts about climate change, sustainability, green agriculture, indigenous foods, farm-to-table restaurants, and how to be an eco-friendly producer, consumer, and chef. -- adapted from amazon.com info.
Download or read book The Gospel of Winter written by Brendan Kiely and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In a lyrical and hard-hitting exploration of betrayal and healing, the son of a Connecticut socialite comes to terms with his abuse at the hands of a beloved priest” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). As sixteen-year-old Aidan Donovan’s fractured family disintegrates around him, he searches for solace in a few bumps of Adderall, his father’s wet bar, and the attentions of his local priest, Father Greg—the only adult who actually listens to him. When Christmas hits, Aidan’s world collapses in a crisis of trust when he recognizes the darkness of Father Greg’s affections. He turns to a crew of new friends to help make sense of his life: Josie, the girl he just might love; Sophie, who’s a little wild; and Mark, the charismatic swim team captain whose own secret agonies converge with Aidan’s. The Gospel of Winter maps the ways love can be used as a weapon against the innocent—but can also, in the right hands, restore hope and even faith. Brendan Kiely’s unflinching and courageous debut novel exposes the damage from the secrets we keep and proves that in truth, there is power. And real love.
Download or read book Writing with Mentors written by Allison Marchetti and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing beyond school-is using dynamic, hot-off-the-press mentor texts. In this practical guide, they provide savvy strategies for:--finding and storing fresh new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to the social mediums of the day --grouping mentor texts in clusters that show a diverse range of topics, styles, and approaches --teaching with lessons that demonstrate the enormous potential of mentor texts at every stage of the writing process.
Download or read book Sulwe written by Lupita Nyong'o and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices! Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award Recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children’s Literary Work From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colorism, self-esteem, and learning that true beauty comes from within. Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey in the night sky opens her eyes and changes everything. In this stunning debut picture book, actress Lupita Nyong’o creates a whimsical and heartwarming story to inspire children to see their own unique beauty.
Download or read book Hey Hey Hay written by Christy Mihaly and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every bale of hay has a little bit of summer sun stored in the heart of it— learn from a mother-daughter team how hay is made! Feeding her horses one cold and wintry day, a girl thinks about all the hard work that went into the fresh-smelling bales she's using. The rhyming text and brilliant full-page paintings follow the girl and her mother through the summer as they cut, spread, dry and bale in the fields. Mower blades slice through the grass./A new row falls with every pass./Next we spread the grass to dry./The tedder makes those grasses fly! This celebration of summer, farming, and family, illustrated by Pura Belpré honor artist Joe Cepeda, includes a glossary of haymaking words, and a recipe for making your own switchel— a traditional farm drink, to cool you down in the summer heat. A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Download or read book Teaching Writing in the Twenty First Century written by Beth L. Hewett and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century is a comprehensive introduction to writing instruction in an increasingly digital world. It provides both a theoretical background and detailed practical guidance to writing instructors faced with novel and ever-changing digital learning technologies, new approaches to access needs and usability design, increasing student diversity, and the multiliteracies of reading, alphabetic writing, and multimodal composition. A companion volume, Administering Writing Programs in the Twenty-First Century, considers the role of administrators in addressing these issues. Covering all aspects of teaching online, various composition genres, and the technologies available to teachers, Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century addresses composing processes and approaches; designing and scaffolding assignments; providing response, feedback, and evaluation; communicating effectively; and supporting students. These strategic and practical ideas are prefaced by a history of the relation between composition and rhetoric and a guide to diversity, inclusion, and access. The volume ends with a chapter on envisioning the future of composition.
