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Teachers & Writers Collaborative - Home - 0 views

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    Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W)-a nonprofit organization-places writers in schools and publishes books and a magazine on teaching writing-materials that provide sound theory and practical curriculum ideas for classrooms. With over 60 titles, our current catalogue/list represents a rich diversity of writers, grade-levels, and genres.
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Successfully Launched My writer Career… Thanks John - 1 views

I want to express my gratitude to John who helped me become the writer I want to be. Before meeting him, I thought that I was born to be a novel writer and I almost believed it after receiving 400 ...

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From Mark Twain to Ray Bradbury, Famous Writers on Truth vs. Fiction | Brain Pickings - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 18 Mar 12
     
    Some great quotes about fiction and writing from famous writers.
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A Writer's Guide To Free Apps For Inspiration & Organization - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 12 Aug 10 - Cached
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    There is a lot of helpful stuff here for writers ranging from places for inspiration &  sites to generate plots, characters, and conflicts to a site that will help you record your work to help you record your copyright information and help you develop a case if needed. There is also a resource to help your organize your submissions to publishers.
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4 Great & Inspiring Sites For Creative Writers To Visit - 0 views

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    There are some interesting sites here.
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Cultivating Creative Writers - 0 views

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    Joe Woods post on Rosen's Book Rewired. annotated
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Lois Lowry Quotes on Writing - 0 views

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  • Reading is the best way to learn to write well. Read as much as you can. Think about what you read: how the author made it interesting, or funny, or suspenseful. And write as much as you can, too.
  • Keep a journal.
  • he important thing is what you absorb from your surroundings. To be a keen observer….to see and ponder and weigh….to hear the cadence of speech and notice the shrugs and gestures and the way the eyebrows lift or the lip curls…to perceive human relationships and how they work (or don’t)….all of that is what makes a writer.
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  • My personal opinion is that you should not worry about ‘being published’. You should enjoy writing, and writing more and more, so that you become better at
  • There isn’t anything magical. It’s a lot of hard work, a lot of fun, and a lot of waiting for the words.
  • anonymous on 25 Mar 13
     
    Seven  quotes from Lois Lowry about writing.
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How social media improved writing - FT.com - 0 views

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  • Day by day, prose is becoming blessedly more like speech. Social media, blogs and emails have hugely improved the way we write.
  • Before the internet, only professional writers wrote
  • Email kicked off an unprecedented expansion in writing.
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  • We’re now in the most literate age in history.
  • Clare Wood, development psychologist at Coventry University
  • Her own study of primary schoolchildren suggested that texting improved their reading ability.
  • Texters, after all, are constantly practising reading and spelling. Sure, children tend not to punctuate text messages. But most of them grasp that this genre has different rules from, say, school exams.
  • George Orwell in 1944 lamented the divide between wordy, stilted written English, and much livelier speech. “Spoken English is full of slang,” he wrote, “it is abbreviated wherever possible, and people of all social classes treat its grammar and syntax in a slovenly way.” His ideal was writing that sounded like speech. We’re getting there at last.
  • anonymous on 18 May 13
     
    From the Financial Times. Discusses how the use of email and social media changed and (in the author's opinion) improved the way we write.
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List of Homonyms Personally Problematic Helps Writers - 0 views

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    Common homonyms list for student to learn.
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I Write Like - 0 views

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    What fun. Input a sample of your writing and it applies statistical analysis and determines which famous writer your word choice and style match most colsely.
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What Teachers Need to Know about Creative Commons ~ Educational Technology and Mobile L... - 0 views

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    Resources to teach teachers about Creative Commons Llcensing.
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Gone Google Story Builder - 0 views

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    Build your own Google Docs story. Almost like writing with dead authors.
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Google Lit Trips: Reading About Reading | Scoop.it - 1 views

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    Great Literaure Resource Site from the creator of Google Lit Trips
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TED-Ed | Lesson worth sharing - 0 views

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    Animated, short lessons from all subject areas. Lots of good stuff here.
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Learning Connected Learning | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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  • Connected Learning emerged from the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, of which the National Writing Project is a key member. Initially released in March 2012, the principles have now been more fully described in a newly released report, Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design
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    Digital Is collection about Connected Learning. Find out what Connected Learning is. Part of Make Summer.
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"Point, Quote, Connect" | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - 0 views

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  • PQC” (Point, Quote, Connect or Comment).
  • 1) Make a point 2) Quote from the text supporting your point 3) Make a connection to your personal experience, another text, or some other knowledge
  • similar acronym I learned from Kelly — “ABC.” It stands for: 1) Answer the Question 2) Back up your answer with evidence or facts. 3) Comment from a more personal opinion or perspective
  • anonymous on 22 Jun 13
     
    Nice strategy to help students learn to support their positions using quotes or evidence.
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'Stronger Together' and 'I Am Your Voice' - How the Nominees' Convention Speeches Compa... - 0 views

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    Visual comparison of how the nominees built their arguments in their convention speeches.speeches.
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50 Little-Known Ways Google Docs Can Help In Education | Edudemic - 0 views

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    Good overview of the advantages and features of GoogleDocs.
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