Tag: Teaching and Learning
-
How to write when your character is a little crazy
I am hard at work on the next novel, and I’m using a different process. Usually I find the voice of the novel first (Is it the voice of the main character? Is it the voice of a narrator?) and then I write my rough draft in the voice. So, I started this project by…
-
Student Showcase: David Scheele
In my skype workshop on creating character, I asked students to choose a character (a person, an animal, or an object) to become. After a series of exercises, the students then had to write a monologue from the character’s point of view. Fifth grader David Scheele wrote this amazing monologue. See if you can guess what…
-
How to Hear a Character’s Voice
Youtube link for video.https://youtu.be/MKSPVcFP6U8 Teachers, if you can’t access youtube, try teachertube.
-
Discussion Questions for Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook
Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook By Mary Amato To Discuss: 1. Edgar spies on his classmates in an effort to solve the mystery, and in the process he learns something important about each one. Specifically, he reads: Destiny’s poem about the willow tree; Taz’s article about osteosarcoma; and Patrick’s poems about his parents’ divorce.…
-
A Principal Who Reads is a Great Role Model
During skype sessions–virtual visits that connect me to students via computer webcams–the teacher or librarian in charge often arranges a chair in front of the school computer’s webcam and calls up students to sit in the chair one by one to ask me questions. It’s always fun for me to see each child’s face appear on my screen. Imagine my…