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Sentence Length in Children's and YA Books
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Charles Dickens: The Key to Character
January 15, 2013
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Common Core Writing Job
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New Reading and Writing Opportunities for 2013
Happy new year!
Click on my Literacy Connections blog to see the New York Public Library's list of top books for children and teens published in 2012. There are many nonfiction and poetry titles for those looking to enhance…
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Education Writing Jobs for ELA Teachers
December 3, 2012
Visit my Literacy Connections blog for a writing opportunity for ELA teachers. If you have at least five years experience teaching ELA, you can apply to write test materials. Good luck!
Happy writing,
Christine
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Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel Writing Webinar
October 24, 2012
Do you think you have what it takes to write the next bestseller for teens or 'tweens? Visit my Literacy Connections blog for info on a live Writer's Digest webinar!
Happy reading,
Christine
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Be Quoted in National Parenting Magazine
October 23, 2012
Visit my Literacy Connections blog to see how you can be a part of an upcoming feature in Parenting magazine!
Happy reading,
Christine
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Over the course of the last week, I began to notice the days have been getting shorter. The mornings are cooler. And the shelves of Target are stocked with boxes of Crayola crayons on sale for forty cents. I don’t know when all of this happened but I realized with summer fading into the horizon, I better get out there and enjoy its final days before it completely disappears. So,…
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In my basement, we have an old dresser. If you were to open any one of the six drawers of this dresser you would have to tug a little because each drawer is filled to the brim and overflowing with Lego. But that’s not the only place you’ll find Lego in my house. Bins of Lego can be found tucked behind chairs and stacked neatly (and not-so-neatly) on bookshelves in every room. And of course, if you look in the heaters and other small crevices of my home, you will find errant pieces and…
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In Steven Johnson’s book Where Good Ideas Come From The Natural History of Innovation, he tells the story of a nineteenth century French obstetrician, Stephane Tarnier, who noticed a chicken incubator on a visit to the Paris Zoo. As he watched the chickens toddle around in the warmth of the device, he thought about the number of babies he delivered that had died. Those babies had been born too soon and as he watched, he wondered if an incubator was the answer to this problem. With…
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