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Test Ladies™ unite! Timing truly is everything when we’re helping students prepare for the writing portion of the state assessment. Check out a strategy that gets kids writing—fast!
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Timed writing practice can help kids conquer their fear of the clock. Here we have another take on Natalie Goldberg's classic advice: Just keep the pen moving! ~ Dennis
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University of Wisconsin professor Sue Fondrie won the Bulwer-Lytton Contest, which asks people to come up with terrible first lines to imaginary novels. Foudrie's winning entry works in dead sparrows and forgotten memories. Delete the scoop?
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Host of the Conscious Discussions talk radio program, Lillian Brummet, is honored to showcase authors, storytellers and poets reading from their published work on Authors Reads radio program. Delete the scoop?
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Scholastic Professional Author TalkAbout video interviews feature expert authors as they answer questions on important issues in education-from reading, writing, and vocabulary instruction to topics of special interest to literacy leaders. Nancie Atwell Jim Burke Ruth Culham Barry Lane ...and many more! Delete the scoop?
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T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, The Waste Land, is often considered one of the great poems of the 20th century. Above, you can listen to Eliot himself reading his modernist masterpiece (text here). And, if you want more, how about Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, another major work, against the backdrop of Portishead? Sacrilege, I know.
You can find both poems in our extensive Free Audio Book collection, which contains hundreds of classic works. Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. It’s all there, and all free.. Delete the scoop?
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