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Summary Map: Scaffolding Summary Writing

Students build essential skills in comprehension and develop a greater understanding of the structural features of a summary by creating a poster of a summary map.

Steve Graham: A Writing Renaissance in the Common Core

Dr. Steve Graham describes his predictions for changes in writing programs within elementary classrooms.

A Room of Writers

Go inside Shana Sterkin’s third grade class as she engages her students in writer’s workshop.

Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole | Figurative Language Lesson

This fast and fun lesson will help you enhance your writing with these elements of figurative language.

Smart little kids

On some deep level, Jon Scieszka knows that kids are going to understand his jokes.

Meeting Lane Smith

Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith weren’t having much luck until they met.

This graphic novelist and reading ambassador tells kids to reach beyond their comfort zone

Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang wrestled with his identity growing up, but he’s made the Chinese-American experience one of the main subjects of his critically acclaimed work.