I dissected Angela Johnson's Book, A Sweet Smell of Roses, to the best of my ability today. I created wordy teaching points so you can truly help your students to see what craft moves Johnson made (at least, the ones I think she made). This will help you show the writers in your classroom how… Continue reading The Craft Table for A SWEET SMELL OF ROSES is complete!
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Have you used this mentor text?
I've been toting around Those Shoes a lot when I'm conferring with my students lately. I'm teaching them things like how to vary sentence lengths and ways to incorporate precise language into their personal narratives by showing them multiple places in Boelts' Text where she does these things. However, late last week, when I was… Continue reading Have you used this mentor text?
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Time to Write the Entire Draft
My colleague Kate and I were remarking that this unit of study on fiction is taking our students longer (i.e., longer for their drafts to come together). Hence, I decided that it's time for ME to get a full, working draft of my story together so that I can really use it as a touchstone… Continue reading Time to Write the Entire Draft
