Tag Archives: prewriting

Arriving at the Axis of Awesome…as Writers

December 11, 2010 – 7:33 am

What do four chords, a batch of great cookie dough, and the seven basic plots have in common? Potential for goodness. Case in point: last week, I spent an afternoon gathering cookie recipes together for holiday baking. Incidentally, this is a holiday where one theme is rapidly emerging: the need to keep things simple. To [...]

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Inspiring Great Ideas

May 26, 2009 – 6:01 am

I’ve been rereading Vicki Spandel’s Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms over the last week, in anticipation of the summer that I have ahead of me. Part of it will be spent working with teachers of very young writers, and part of it will be spent working [...]

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