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In Our Write Minds

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Encouragement, ideas, and resources for teachers and homeschool parents as they teach their children to write. No matter what writing program or method you choose, everyone can use a few fresh ideas or a bit of timely advice along the writing journey.

• Added on: Feb 27th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: rckimmo
• Listed in: How-To Education
• Tags: writing ideas essay writing writing curriculum reluctant writer homeschool writing writing games

Recent Posts

• Stumbling block #8 – Parental criticism

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 06:00 in comments, high school, writing, editing, praise, positive feedback, junior high, editing tips, grading writing, editing & revising, critical parent, rubric

  When it comes to chores, character training, and schoolwork, you can’t always be the nice guy, the friend. Nope. You’ve got to be the parent, which means it falls to you to judge and evaluate your kids’ work. But if you don’t evaluate ...

• Wordless Wednesday – Marry Christnos!

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 02:01 in wordless wednesday, bad spelling, cakewrecks, bad punctuation, bad signage humor

  I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful Christmas season!  Here are a couple of cake gems to sweeten the holidays a little bit more. Holiday’s Happe would make more sense provided that someone named Holiday owned a Happe.  However, that soun...

• Brrrr! A winter word bank!

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 02:01 in winter, holiday, vocabulary, season, categories, synonyms, thesaurus, word list, writing games & activities, word bank, holiday & seasonal ideas, synonym finder

  Brrrrrr! Here’s an icy blast of words that will give your young writers a leg up when they’re crafting stories and poems about winter. Remember—using a word bank isn’t cheating! It’s simply another great tool to slip ...

• Stumbling block #7 – Procrastination

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 06:01 in high school, procrastination, writing, accountability, schedule, plan, laziness, lazy, procrastinate, junior high, teaching writing, reluctant writers

  In our series on 10 Stumbling Blocks to Writing, last week we looked at the problem of laziness. But laziness has a close cousin in the obstacle we’ll explore today: procrastination. Stumbling Block #7 Problem: The procrastinator waits till th...

• 100 amazing writing tools you never knew you needed

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 13:00 in writer, links, blogger, writing tools, resources & links

  Writers write so readers can read, and what’s better than a loyal reader who loves your work? The bottom line of your profession, writer, is that you must keep readers satisfied and intrigued. After you’ve mastered your first popular short story...

• Writing a Christmas cinquain poem

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 06:01 in poetry, poem, holiday, christmas, cinquain, holiday & seasonal ideas

  Cinquain poems are easy to write and a lot of fun too. The simplicity comes from following a set pattern of words and phrases. The resulting poem—five lines in a special shape—is rich with colorful, concrete vocabulary. Here are two exam...

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