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- Reading Comprehension Home
- Making Connections
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- Inferring
- Metacognition
- Questioning
- Synthesizing
- Visualizing and Imagery
- Vocabulary and Word Identification
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Important UNCG Links
Writing Across the Curriculum
- About Writing Across the Curriculum<
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Books about Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Children’s Books Written in a Letter or Journal Format
- Books about Children's Authors
- Some Helpful Web sites
Books about Writing for Children and Young Adults:
Creech, S. (2001). Love That Dog. New York: Joanna Cotler Books.
A young student, who comes to love poetry, surprises himself by writing his own poem. (F Cre)
Fletcher, R. (2005). A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, Inc.
A collection of twenty-seven short poems on a variety of subjects. (811 Fle)
Goffstein, M.B. (1984). A Writer. New York: Harper & Row.
A brief text compares the work of a writer to that of a gardener whose seeds are ideas that grow into books. ( E Gof)
Leedy, L. (2004). Look at My Book: How Kids can Write and Illustrate Terrific Books. New York : Holiday House.
Provides ideas and simple directions for writing, illustrating, designing, and binding books. (808 Lee)
Mirriam-Goldberg, C. (1999). Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life. Minneapolis , MN : Free Spirit Publishing.
Provides advice and exercises to enable individuals to become more confident and more competent writers. (808.042 Mer)
Quotes:
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.
1(McKinley, R. 2007)
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.
2(Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in Smith, L. (2006). John, Paul, George, & Ben – end page)
1McKinley, R. (2007). Quotes about Writing. Retrieved on April 24, 2007 from http://koti.mbnet.fi/pasenka/quotes/q-writ.htm#The%20reader
2Smith, L. (2006). John, Paul, George & Ben. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.