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Well, not yet, but we hear it’s off to a good start. You can join the hundreds (dare we say thousands) of teachers already using this 96-page daily writing program in their classrooms. It’s easy-to-use, kid-tested, and ready to be your entire writing...
As a special gift to their e-newsletter subscribers, the staff at Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine is giving away Mack’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The play, which originally appeared in the December 1998 issue, was the first of...
The Headless Horseman conjures up images of ghosts and zombies–always engaging topics for young students. But Sleepy Hollow is more than just a ghost story. Set during the post-Revolutionary War period, it’s the tale of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, one...
Does your writing instruction suffer from any of these ailments?
“One-on-one conferencing is time-consuming and the classroom management necessary to make it work is taxing. I soon burn-out on teaching writing.”
“I’m adept at teaching the writing...
It’s exciting to include Powell’s Books among the many fine bookstores carrying Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs. Long a favorite of every West Coaster, Powell’s City of Books in Portland’s Pearl District carries just about everything . . . and now...