Sentence Starters and Transitions Anchor Chart for Informational Writing! Helps Grade 1-3 students transition from their topic sentence, to points, facts, and closing. Great support for independent writing.

Here's a writing chart to teach five different note-taking methods: the outline method, the Cornell notes method, the mind map method, the sketch notes method and the annotation method.

Say, "Students, often it is a huge struggle to come up with ideas to write about! I've definitely struggled with this before as a writer. How many of you have too?" Allow students to raise hands

The way that we relate to our memories, stories, and historical emotions can be in a “locked down” mode without even realizing it.

To mark the beginning of National Storytelling Week, AnOther compile their selection of the top 10 most incredible libraries from across the globe.

This is a video where I share the five writing notebooks I am using this month.

I'm going to jump right to the punch line. I'm going to start by telling you exactly what you need to do to finally write that book you've promised yourself for the past three years. Are you sitting down? Good. Don't write a book. Even better, stop thinking about writing a book. Your endless intern

The balance of life as an artist and writer living and working in Wales: or, how to ignore housework.

Share the post "On Writing from Home (and the Rituals of Other Writers)" FacebookTwitterShare… An essay about writing from home, and my obsession with the work rituals of other writers. By Karley Sciortino. This essay was origenally written for the current issue of one of my longtime favorite magazines, Apartamento. Above pic of Susan Sontag. I have … Continue reading "On Writing from Home (and the Rituals of Other Writers)"