All Blog Posts Tagged 'writing' (10)

Sentence Length in Children's and YA Books

February 20, 2013
 
As teachers, we stress to our students the importance of writing clear, concise sentences.  We focus on avoiding fragments and run-ons and  varying sentence structure.  Yet, we read quality pieces of…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on February 20, 2013 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Charles Dickens: The Key to Character

January 15, 2013

Want to improve characterization in your own writing?  Want to teach your students how to analyze character? Then hurry to catch the New York Public Library exhibit,…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on January 15, 2013 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Common Core Writing Job

January 10, 2012
Here is a link for an assessment writing job for someone experienced with CCSS.  Good…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on January 10, 2013 at 12:00am — No Comments

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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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on January 2, 2013 at 12:55pm — No Comments

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

Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on December 3, 2012 at 12:26pm — No Comments

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

Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on October 24, 2012 at 7:54am — No Comments

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

Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on October 23, 2012 at 7:34am — No Comments

The Times They Are A-Changin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE

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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Added by Kim Yaris on August 31, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Lego Block

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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Added by Kim Yaris on August 11, 2011 at 3:32pm — No Comments

A Smoothie at the Zoo

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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Added by Kim Yaris on August 10, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

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