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Poetry Friday: The Start of The Sealey Challenge and the End of the Parks and Libraries Challenge
Mary Lee Hahn is our Poetry Friday host today. Hop on over there for the roundup. SCBWI Intensive I’m doing a presentation at a local SCBWI intensive on September 30 on researching your nonfiction or historical fiction project. The registration is live, if you’re local and want to…
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Poetry Friday: An Invitation to Learn about Collaboration
Matt at Radio, Rhythm and Rhyme is hosting Poetry Friday this week. Check his site for all of the links! Haiku of the Week Chinese paperbush stars in the sun-drenched garden yellow bursts of spring –Haiku and photo by Marcie Flinchum Atkins Photo taken at Enid A. Haupt…
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Mentor Text Marketing
I have a new mentor text article that just came out in the SCBWI Bulletin. It’s called “Mentor Text Marketing: Getting Your Book into the Hands of Young Writers and Their Teachers.” If you are an SCBWI member, you can access the article online. For mentor text article links,…
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Mentor Text Lesson: NOAH WEBSTER & HIS WORDS by Jeri Chase Ferris, illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch
Jeri Chase Ferris recently won the 2013 SCBWI Golden Kite Award for non-fiction for her picture book biography, NOAH WEBSTER & HIS WORDS. This book is illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch. This mentor text lesson plan for writing will assist teachers with teaching the following writing skills: Specific…
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Making Time to Write Monday: Using a Conference as a Deadline
Last weekend, I went away for a long weekend to the Mid-Atlantic SCBWI conference. I’d known about it for months, planned ahead in my job, my personal life, and even my writing. I set goals for myself of things I wanted to have accomplished in my writing before I…
