Today is Day 1 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge with Two Writing Teachers. For this challenge I will be attempting to write a “Slice of Life” post each day in the month of March and each Tuesday after that. When I Wake It’s 6:00 A.M. on Saturday morning. I had a long week…
When I’m looking for mentor texts, I often forget to consider photos. “Reading” a photo uses some of the same skills as reading a text with words. One of my favorite sources for online photography is http://www.wprasek.com. There are a variety of categories and the photos are vibrant and rich. When I look for photos…
for Beating the Baddies like Batman Batman is one of my favorite heroic characters. It’s true, it is possible that Batman is not, technically, a superhero (wha-what??? Read here or here if you want to edify yourself), but I have decided I’m okay with his questionable status. I have decided to love him anway. Let…
Let’s start off 2014 with an ABC book! Let’s call it the… Abecedary of Cape-Wearing! Let’s start right now! is for Caveat Wait… what? Did I mean to do that? Yes, and it’s making me giggle. While that doesn’t gurantee that it’s actually funny, it does prove I did it on purpose and like it. How,…
Thanks to a friend and colleague Amy, I’ve renewed my intention to post mentor text ideas each Monday. Since Amy is going to post as well, and since she is a powerhouse who does what she says she does, I’m thinking this will be a good thing! For today’s Mentor Text Monday post I want…
I was tickled to learn the work “abecedary” recently. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abecedary Even more ticklish is the pronunciation. I was trying to make it fancy–/ab-ced-ar-ee/–but no. If you look in the definition page there, and even click the video it is /ay-bee-see-duh-ree/. It truly is a word made from the first three letters of the alphabet. A-B-C-dary.…
Wear the Cape proudly welcomes our first guest blogger! Jeni Cass is caped teacher from a charter school in San Diego. Jeni truly does wear her cape each day in her kinder classroom. Enjoy this amazing mentor text form Jeni! This Plus That by Amy Krause Rosenthal As a kinder teacher the thought of doing a…
Last week I talked about using UPPERCASE Magazine and their focus on “sticky things” as mentor texts. I also alluded to the fact that I would use more from this magazine. While the theme of this issue is collage, there is a “Creative Challenge” on page 75 that suggests collecting artifacts. There is a great…
UPPERCASE Magazine, Issue No. 18, “Cut it Out” is all about collage. Yup. you read that correctly, collage. It’s a beautful magazine printed on amazing paper. The tagline is “a magazine for the creative and curious.” Well that’s us in a nutshell is it not? Keeping “creative and curious” in mind, I thought I’d share…
I remember my thinking clearly. I had gotten it into my head that I was meant to be a motorcyclist. My dad had instilled the appropriate amount of fear of what he called “hundreds of pounds of hurtling steel” and I knew the safety class had to come first. This shows growth on my part…
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