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Handbook of Poetic Forms
Handbook of Poetic Forms Edited by Ron Padgett revised second edition 256 pp. Grades: all ages $19.95 paperback The second edition of this best-selling handbook includes 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms, an updated bibliography, and a resource list of current audio and videocassettes. The Handbook succinctly defines the forms, summarizes their histories, quotes…
Read MoreFrom Medusa to the Sky: Teaching Writing to Children with Special Needs
From Medusa to the Sky: Teaching Writing to Children with Special Needs Edited by Nicole Callihan and Catherine Barnett eBook edition The exercises in From Medusa to the Sky grew out of Teachers & Writers Collaborative’s long history of providing creative writing programs for students in New York City’s District 75 schools and classrooms, which serve…
Read MoreEducating the Imagination Volume 2: Essays and Ideas for Teachers and Writers
Educating the Imagination Volume 2: Essays and Ideas for Teachers and Writers Edited by Christopher Edgar & Ron Padgett 320 pp. Grades: all ages $14.95 paperback The essays in Educating the Imagination were selected from the very best articles in Teachers & Writers magazine. Fifty-five creative writers present a multitude of ideas and techniques for…
Read MoreEducating the Imagination Volume 1: Essays and Ideas for Teachers and Writers
Educating the Imagination Volume 1: Essays and Ideas for Teachers and Writers Edited by Christopher Edgar & Ron Padgett 304 pp. Grades: all ages $14.95 paperback The essays in Educating the Imagination were selected from the very best articles in Teachers & Writers magazine. Fifty-five creative writers present a multitude of ideas and techniques for…
Read MoreThe Dictionary of Wordplay
The Dictionary of Wordplay By Dave Morice 293 pp. Grades: all ages $19.95 paperback $5.95 eBook The Dictionary of Wordplay is the first dictionary of wordplay, ever. The more than 1,234 entries in Morice’s Dictionary range from the acrostic and the “exquisite corpse” to palindromes, spoonerisms, and anagrams. From these the reader moves on to such esoteric and fascinating…
Read MoreDeep Revision: A Guide for Teachers, Students, and Other Writers
Deep Revision: A Guide for Teachers, Students, and Other Writers By Meredith Sue Willis 192 pp. Grades: all ages $16.95 paperback If you or your students dread the process of revision, this book will prove transformative. Deep Revision covers topics such as: revision as a natural process, learning to revise by editing other people’s writing, changing…
Read MoreClassics in the Classroom: Using Great Literature to Teach Writing
Classics in the Classroom: Using Great Literature to Teach Writing Edited by Christopher Edgar & Ron Padgett 240 pp. Grades: all ages $17.95 paperback Classics in the Classroom presents fascinating strategies for using great literature to inspire imaginative writing. The literature discussed in this volume includes myths, epics, lyric poems, plays, stories, and novels, from ancient Sumeria, Greece,…
Read MoreThe Circuit Writer: Writing with Schools and Communities
The Circuit Writer: Writing with Schools and Communities By Margot Fortunato Galt 147 pp. Grades: all ages $14.95 paperback The Circuit Writer: Writing with Schools and Communities is Margot Fortunato Galt’s compelling account of her 3 decades as a visiting writer in the Upper Midwest, teaching such diverse populations as Somali and Hmong refugees, Dakota…
Read MoreThe Art of Science Writing
The Art of Science Writing By Dale Worsley & Bernadette Mayer 224 pp. Grades: middle school, high school, university $17.95 paperback The Art of Science Writing features innovative advice about science writing, as well as inspiring examples from Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Stephen Jay Gould, and others. Topics covered include: essay development; writing…
Read MoreThe Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing
The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing Edited by Christian McEwen & Mark Statman 320 pp. Grades: all ages $19.95 paperback The Alphabet of the Trees is a superb collection of essays about teaching all aspects and forms of nature writing, including field journals, poems, fiction, and nonfiction. The distinguished contributors to this volume…
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