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Semantic Gradients

Semantic gradients are a way to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of related words.

Books, screenplays, poetry

Cooper talks about the difference between the solitary process of writing a book and the communal effort needed to write a play.

The hard middle

Mary Amato explains why she thinks it is hardest to write a story’s middle.

The classroom storyteller

Dav Pilkey discusses his elementary school experiences as a student diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. 

A first autobiography

The Innkeeper’s Apprentice (1979), Allen Say’s first and only long-form book, tells his own life story and inspired his picture book autobiography, Drawing from Memory (2011).

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