All-Write Summer Institute: Day Two.

What a whirlwind!  And coming home to three young children didn’t slow life down any!  True to form, I’m going to write another list of good stuff from day two.

Storyboards ROCK — for all grade levels.  Penny spent time discussing her use of storyboards.  Basically it is pictures + few words.  At the younger grades, [...]

Six Words: Day in a Sentence Challenge

Kevin challenged his blog readers to boil-down their day into one sentence. Since I’m heading into school today to box-up my stuff so that the cleaning crew has an easier time moving my furniture when they wax it later this summer, my sentiment is very simple:

Packing up is hard to do.
To learn more about [...]

Great Resources at NWP.org

I was perusing the National Writing Project’s Website and came across several pages, all under the heading of “Encourage Writing” which you might find as useful as I did with regard to helping you to plan back-to-school newsletters. The NWP even lists a few activities that family members can do together. So, if [...]

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