Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Mean girls and drama queens make the movies (and blogs), but this is a post about shy girls.  Schools, colleges, I suppose even work places, are full of them.  They quietly do their work and silently get the job done.  They don’t make waves, they don’t raise their voices, and often they don’t raise their [...]

Last week my second graders crossed the Rubicon of their writing journeys.  It was a point of no return.
They surged across the murky waters of This and That straight into the Land of PARAGRAPHS.  Not one, but two.  ParagraphS, with a capital S at the end.
No more struggling primarily with THE WORD or THE SENTENCE.  [...]