Youth fiction writer Ralph Fletcher fondly recalls his childhood years in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts, growing up with his eight siblings in a traditional Catholic family during the 1950s and 1960s.
Presents twenty lessons to help students create a writer's notebook and use the notebook to improve their writing skills and apply them to the classroom.
Presents an introduction to the writing workshop and explains how such workshops can be used to develop strong writing skills in students, discussing time and space, the writing cycle, assessment and evaluation, and other topics.
Presents techniques and strategies for a writer's "toolbox," designed to help produce energetic, interesting writing; covers characters, voice, audience, conflict, setting, leads, endings, and reading like a writer.
Discusses the various kinds of things to keep in a writer's notebook--seed ideas, mind pictures, lists, memories, samples of other writers' work--and why.
Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.
A collection of age-specific craft lessons educators may use to teach writing to students, grouped by grade level, from kindergarten through second, third and fourth, and fifth through eighth. Includes references.
Discusses the importance of keeping a notebook for writers, looking at how writers use their journals to record selected insights, lines, images, ideas, dreams, and fragments of conversation; and considering the notebook as a source of original writing.
