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"Where Do You Get Your Ideas?: Favorite Authors Reveal Their Writing Secrets"

Writing benchmark 1.2: Developing Ideas

Long time no post, finally I got my hands back onto my Blogspot account: http://favorite-articles.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-essay-writing.html

"Meet the Author Introduce teens to the creators of their favorite books with our exclusive interviews with top young adult authors. Our interviews explore each author's life, writing process, and the back stories behind their most popular books. Meet the characters behind the characters!"

Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favorite books (nearly 70,000 different titles so far, and more than a million reader recommendations) to suggest what you could read next.

Write me a story: Kids read (and vote on their favorite) and write short stories on this kid-friendly site

One of my favorite genres in childrens' literature is memoir. I only recently learned of the power and beauty of memoir. Five years ago, I had the privilege of spending two weeks in New York City at Columbia University. It was there at Lucy Calkin's Teacher's College Writing Project for teachers that I learned of the power of this genre.

Three-Sentence Overview of this Lesson: Inspired by both William Carlos Williams and the main character in Sharon Creech's Love That Dog, the writer will create four original 16-word poems that capture interesting images. The writer will then choose a favorite 16-word poem and ask, "Why would so much depend upon that image to someone else?" The writer can then create a short story about an original character who might have written the 16-word poem.

Grade 7 Poetry Unit

Poetry

I'll add this to the page on my website of books recs for students