Ralph Fletcher and student writing

Ralph Fletcher has written a number of resources on helping students with writing. In particular he has written about the benefits of keeping "a writer's notebook". This latest book is available to browse online, and from page 116 are examples of some classroom approaches...

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Pyrotechnics on the Page helps teachers energize student writing with an in-depth look at the kind of language play commonly used by writers and 24 new craft lessons. Preview the entire book online!
Pyrotechnics on the Page: Playful Craft That Sparks Writing

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Ralph Fletcher Year: 2010 Foreword by Katie Wood Ray Media: 192 pp/paper ISBN: 978-157110-783-1 Grade Range: K-8 Item No.: WEU-0783

Kate De Goldi spoke about the advantages of keeping a writers notebook when she was talking to schools in Northland last year. Good writers, she told us, are good readers, keen observers, avid recorders and from this comes the connections and new ways of seeing and describing...

See her brilliant post to the Northland students she visited on the Book Council blog : http://bookcouncil.blogspot.com/2008/04/from-kate-de-goldi.html