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At each stop the bus makes, take time to write. Let the scenes around you be your prompts. Do you see any graffiti that catches your eye? Can you imagine where the last rider might be going and why? What are you leaving behind? What are you thinking as the bus lurches forward towards another …

Okay ladies, the time has come to reflect. We as a class are finished with our book discussion for now, feel free to read through past chapter 10 on your own time. I hope that you will pick this book up again, I know it has been helpful to me in my teaching of writing.
Please …

I am selecting two of Katie Wood Ray’s questions that she asks herself when selecting texts for her students.
1. What do many of my students struggle with as writers?
2. What might my students be excited to see as writers? What will they want to try?
Oops, that was three questions.

This chapter, like chapter 7 invites us into Ray’s library. This time she gives us specific details and a name for these “wonderous ways with words”.
I want to have some fun. You will have until February 3rd to respond.
Get into your library-class or personal. Find some words that just sound good to you. Share them …

People often forget that writing is something ou do, not something you know. On page 136 Ray gave critical points about organizing a study of craft in your classroom.
How can you apply this knowledge in your classroom?
How has your reading and writing changed as a result of  reading Wonderous Words? Do you find yourself “reading …

Chapter 5 has dialogue between inexperienced and experienced writers.
What three points spoke to you about your classroom?
This will be an opportunity to share and a way to showcase the grade you teach.

On page 70-71
Ray begins a wonderful discussion about the “sound of good writing”. In your classroom, how do you use the idea of “sound”?
How do you guide students to know when writing sounds right?

On page 57
The ability to envision more of what you can do with writing comes from reading like a writer…
As a new teacher, where do you go to search for new ideas and possibilities in writing/or every day preparation for your classroom?
What areas/subjects are your strengths? Your weaknesses?
Where do you as a new teacher need …

1.Mrs. Ray asks you to define and give shape to what we mean by the craft of writing, both in process and in text. So after reading the chapter how do you answer that statement? What does it mean to you in your teaching?
2. Chapter 2 gives quite a bit of information about the organization …

I can’t imagine being a teacher of writing and not being able to pull something of value from this article.
Instead of posing the classic, factual question, I would like to know something else. What did you highlight? Not so much physically highlight, but what stood out to you? What could you literally integrate into your …