My Writing Stories that Only I Can Tell

I wrote the words below in BLACK as the 2015 year began, my first New Years Day of choosing a OLW. As I reflect on my ONE LITTLE WORD now, ...

June, 2015 Dear Janney 5 th Grade Writing Friends, As we end our year together, we just want to take a moment to reflect on a ...

I can vividly recall reading Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day to my first class in the fall of 1986, me fresh out of colle...

I say I value mentor authors but the Writing Workshop I ran on Wednesday solidified this belief. It resulted in such strong writing after I ...

Last Friday was my students' 5th grade Memoir Publishing Party. Last Wednesday, I was collecting the students' memoirs, just two...

My 5th graders are writing memoirs right now.  Here is the memoir I wrote while guiding them through their memoir unit of study. ...

Before That by Pigeon   Pigeon and Duckling share a hot dog while Pigeon realizes that the Duckling is very clever! Before...