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Sep 12, 2016
"When Readers Find The Books Seeking Them"
“When Readers Find The Books Seeking Them”: Two Teachers Talk Twin Towers TitlesTHIS IS A CROSS-POST BLOG from THESE 4 CORNERS (Paul's Blog)A ...
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Apr 27, 2016
#WallowinWonder: 1677: "What Makes Your Tongue Burn?"
We've been working with Catalog Verse in Room 407. You might recognize this type of poem if you've ever listened to:"My Favorite Things" from The ...
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Apr 24, 2016
#WallowinWonder: #201:"What is the Best Place on Earth?"
This picture is from our family vacation in Northern Michigan last fall. This area is often referred to by locals as "God's Country." While walking ...
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Apr 21, 2016
Wallow in Wonder Poem 14, 15, and 16: Synthesis/Sestina Poem
You've probably wondered where I've been. I wish I could answer like Zora Neale Hurston's Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God to say, "I've been ...
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Apr 14, 2016
Wallow in Wonder Poem 13: #1667 "How Do Homing Pigeons Find Their Way Home?"
"How to Find Your Way Home"Move about--from little room to little room.Look about--little room after little room.Move in--make this one your little ...
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Apr 12, 2016
Wallow in Wonder Poem 12: #1666: "Why are There Seven Days in a Week?"
I'm going to cheat a little today. Only because our students in Room 407 are working with Pantoum form today and tomorrow.And. . .Pantoum has seven ...
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Apr 11, 2016
Wallow in Wonder Poem 11: #115: "Are Debit Cards and Credit Cards the Same?"
I've already used one of these machines today. And by the end of the day, I will have probably used one again. It reminds me that while in ...
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Apr 10, 2016
WallowInWonder Two-For Sunday: Poems 9 and 10
Feeling a little under the weather and I did not get a post in on Saturday. So, if you are following the blog during the month of April, you are ...
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Apr 9, 2016
Wallow in Wonder Poem 8: "Why Can't You Drive As Fast As You Want?"
I am very late to the game today. It's been that kind of week. And here we are. . .at the end. . .of that kind of week. You know the kind of week, ...
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At the age of ten I was told by the principal: Oona, you are a poet. So, I wrote poems from that day forward, through seven snowy midwestern ...
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Oct 16, 2018
“Styx Malone didn’t believe in miracles, but he was one,” begins my new middle grade novel, The Season of Styx Malone. Caleb ...
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Oct 15, 2018
Riddle me this readers…why do so many educators consider comic books second class literature? Comic books are books. The very ...
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Oct 13, 2018
The gravel crunches as I pull my red RAV 4 to a halt at the edge of a dusty highway. I can just imagine my car asking: “Why is she stopping? ...
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Oct 9, 2018
Abracadabra! I sought out how-to books about card tricks, guidebooks to seashells, and page-turning mysteries. Shortly after second grade, I’d ...
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Oct 8, 2018
How can we serve up poetry in a fresh new way? This is the question we ask ourselves each time we start a project. In our early books in The Poetry ...
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Oct 6, 2018
I love a great sentence. You know the ones that just grab you and make you say, whoa! One of the suggestions I always have for the teachers I work ...
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Oct 5, 2018
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked that very famously centuries ago in a play you might be familiar with. I always took umbrage ...
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Oct 4, 2018
It’s been eighteen months since I wrote this post about York: The Shadow Cipher—the first volume in my middle grade ...
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