…and we’re back!

A year from my last post and here I am again–ready to resurrect Wear the Cape.  Follow me!  Tell your friends!  Pressure me to post!  Offer to guest post!  Let’s share what we do in our (okay, your) classrooms!

[Mentor Text Monday] Word Envy

Those of you that follow me on Facebook may have seen a series of posts straight from my Kindle this weekend.  I started reading The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and have incredible word envy. Here are some excerpts that I love love loved.   Loved, I tells ya. Re: the Noise Re: …

[Lesson Ideas] Magically Delicious

Here is a presentation I made to help me introduce the concept of Magic Realism at Young Writers Camp.  Feel free to use it, and all images and links should either go directly to the source, or have enough information to identify the source. Please also give appropriate credit to sources if you use this–it’s…

I Won!!!

I won a contest that I didn’t even know I signed up for!!!  What did I win?  That’s the best part! Guess… Nope, not that. Nooooo, not that either. Okay, I’ll tell you. Wait for it… Wait for it…. Wait for it… I get to jump off a building!!!! For FREE!!! Yes, jump.  Yes, a…

[Friday Free-Day] Yo! Snaps

I’m puttering around this post trying to figure out how to describe what became, this Spring, a phenomenon in my classroom. It’s quite near indescribable, but it’s also amazing and worth sharing. Where to begin…? On a Tuesday I “threw a snap” to one of my students. It’s something I used to do with my…

[WtC Wednesday] Personal Heroage

Pardon the day-late-ness of this post.  Here is what I managed to write in flu-ridden state yesterday: “In my searc for adequate definits of the erm “hero, I have found…. little that I likes.”  Ermmm… yeah.  So I am trying again. I was looking for good definitions of the term hero. I didn’t find any…

[Mentor Text Monday] Maniac Magee

Briefly, I define mentor texts as a piece of a writing used as a model.  There is more to it, but let’s start there.  Eventually, I’ll post a page with more of a definition or guide. I’m not sure exactly how Mentor Text Mondays will go, but you can bet on your teaching patootie, that…

[Student Work] Late

From a student journal today.  We’ve been writing 15 minutes a day all year.   This makes my heart smile. Late start. Barely made it. Happy I’m not late. The guy in the taco shop took forever, Singing his songs and drinking coffee. Irritated already So please Leave me alone Stomachache Foot cramps Head ache.                                                          …