MSCI Links

“Writing Visionaries: Empowering Others to See Themselves as Writers”

Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institute Links
Roanoke College
June 25, 2018

 

Handout

Examples for each part of the writing process

Books For Adults

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Chapter After Chapter by Heather Sellers

Grit by Angela Duckworth

Real Revision by Kate Messner

 

Books for Students

Breakout by Kate Messner

Drawn Together by Minh Le and Dan Santat

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Writing Radar by Jack Gantos

 

Writing Challenges

Teachers Write, July 9-August 3, 2018

Writing Marathon

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program

 

Links

Kate Messner’s blog posts about the process of Breakout

Melissa Stewart’s timeline and process notes and videos

We Need Diverse Books–Our Story Database

Teachers as Readers (at Belvedere Elementary, Fairfax County, VA)

Audio and Video Links

Why I Write Podcast, Episode 19

Ira Glass Video on Storytelling

 

Music and Noise

White Noise App

YouTube Concentration Music

 

Secondary Q & A Links

Onomatopoeia Resources

Onomatopoeia Resource Book

Onomatopoeia Lesson Plan

Snow Sounds by David A. Johnson

Watersong by Tim McCanna

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington

 

Nonfiction Recommendations for Secondary Students

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

Steve Sheinkin

Russell Freedman

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Candace Fleming

Deborah Heiligman (see her books for middle grade and young adult readers)