Writers And Their Notebooks: Meg McKinlay (Part 2)
In last week’s blog post I shared the first part of my interview with Australian children’s author Meg McKinlay. Meg gave us plenty of fascinating tidbits of information on how …
In last week’s blog post I shared the first part of my interview with Australian children’s author Meg McKinlay. Meg gave us plenty of fascinating tidbits of information on how …
Meg McKinlay is, admittedly, one of my favourite Australian children’s authors. She’s written numerous award-winning picture books, including Once Upon a Small Rhinoceros, Ten Tiny Things and The Penguins are …
I was recently fortunate enough to interview Kaye Baillie, the author of one of the most heart-warming books ever, Boo Loves Books (where two of my loves- books and cute …
Notebook writing is the perfect start-of-year activity for your literacy classroom- it builds community and teaches students timely strategies for generating ideas for writing. Now that’s a win-win right there. …
One question I get asked a lot is “how should we use writer’s notebooks with students?” I am all about authenticity so I thought it would make sense to ask …
It’s early days in the school year and you want to make sure you are setting your students up for absolute success in all things literacy this year. You’ve got …
After spending all weekend working out the best way to teach a genre, locating the required resources and then executing the perfect minilesson, the last thing a teacher wants to …
I once had a neighbour ask me about orienteering as she said she thought her son might like it. I gave her all the information about our next event and …