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Poetry Friday February 9, 2024
Carol at Beyond Literacy Link is the host this week. Hop on over there for the roundup. Haiku of the Week in the winter wind crispy flowers show off their furs Photo Taken: December 16, 2023 at Belle’s Bird Sanctuary Haiku Written: January 23, 2024…
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Poetry Friday: Artist Dates
Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading is our host today. A Trip to the Building Museum I know Julia Cameron recommends doing an artist date alone, but I’ve often broken this rule. I recently went to the National Building Museum with my writing friend, Liza. The…
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Poetry Friday: On a Flake-Flying Day
This week’s Poetry Friday host is Jama at Jama’s Alphabet Soup. https://jamarattigan.com/ On a Flake-Flying Day On a Flake-Flying Day: Watching Nature’s Wonders by Buffy Silverman Millbrook Press, 2023 On a Flake-Flying Day is another book in Buffy Silverman’s season series. You can see…
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Historical Fiction Mentor Texts: ReFoReMo 2021
Every year it’s such a joy to participate in ReFoReMo–Read for Research Month. It’s an opportunity to study mentor texts as a writer. There are hundreds of books featured this month. I’m there today talking about historical fiction picture books. Do you have a favorite historical fiction picture book?…
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NF10for10 2018: Sidebars are Not for Skipping
As a kid, I’m pretty sure I only read sidebars if they looked interesting. But there are a whole bunch of nonfiction picture books with excellent sidebars. As a writer and a librarian I’ve been keenly interested in nonfiction books that have two levels of text—a main text and…
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ReFoReMo is Here!
ReFoReMo stands for Reading for Research Month. It is run by Carrie Charley Brown and her team and focuses on diving into picture books as mentor texts. My post is the first one in the line up today with a focus on reader engagement in picture books. Hop on…
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Mentor Texts for Writers: A Little Help From My Friends by Pat Miller
One thing is for sure, I couldn’t do this series “Mentor Texts for Writers” without a little help from my friends. I have been so fortunate to have amazing writers post about their experiences using mentor texts. Pat Miller and I both blog on the GROG blog. I also…
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Mentor Texts for Writers: A Storytime Capsule by Carter Higgins
I can not wait for Carter’s books to come out because I know they will be absolute treasures! I hope this blog post will have you basking in words, one of the main reasons we writers want to write ourselves. If you missed Carter’s blog post for teachers…
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Mentor Texts for Writers: Meet My Mentor Texts by Linda Bozzo
I’m so excited that Linda Bozzo is on my blog today because I’ve actually met her in REAL LIFE. Linda and I met at the WOW Conference in Georgia last summer. I always learn so much by how others study mentor texts, and Linda is no exception. …
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Poetry Mentor Texts: Some Bugs by Andrea DiTerlizzi
Some Bugs By Andrea DiTerlizzi Illustrated by Brendan Wenzel Beach Lane, 2014 Some Bugs is one of those books that completely absorbs the reader in it’s fun but spare language. It’s a brilliant 94 words! Like Raindrops Roll, it’s one I typed up because I wanted to study the…
