Narrative Essay Examples In a narrative essay you tell a story, but you also make a point. So, it is like a story told for a reason. A narrative essay uses all the story elements – a beginning and ending, plot, characters, setting and climax – all coming together to complete the story. Essential Elements of …
Images are part of the story – sometimes they are only in your imagination: and sometimes you get lucky – and find the work of Children’s Illustrator Angela Padron. Angela magically captured the beautiful writing of Ellis Paul’s historic characters in “The Hero in You,” by doing her own research and bringing their unique qualities …
It’s shocking how loud the empty blank page can scream at you. Deafening. How do we start? One word at a time. Slowly. Just look at the blank page, and conquer it. Write one word. It doesn’t have to be on a line, or small or big. It is just a word. It is your …
A successful way to challenge students to become more independent writers is to task yourself as a listener. Help students learn what ideas and things in and about their lives are special to them. Encourage them to make discoveries and connections with those things in their writing. Students who are always supplied with outside ideas …
By investigating junk mail, students learn to think about and question texts in ways that develop their analytical capacities and critical reading practices. Students work in small groups to investigate and sort junk mail into categories of their choice using a Venn diagram. They discuss the purpose of junk mail and compose a class definition. …
Children’s Illustrator Angela Padron once again bring insight and storytelling ideas to those who create art with their words.
Rescue Writing considers it an honor to support teachers in their classrooms and parents of homeschoolers. When we started, we thought it would best be suited for third, fourth and fifth graders, since that was when students began to express themselves individually, or so we thought. As it turns out, even kindergarten students want to …
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Rescue Writing considers it an honor to support teachers in their classrooms and parents of homeschoolers. When we started, we thought it would best be suited for third, fourth and fifth graders, since that was when students began to express themselves individually, or so we thought. As it turns out, even kindergarten students want to …
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With 18 gold medals, Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history. Last week, he qualified for his FIFTH Olympic games. And he still practices every day. To become a great swimmer, he swam. A lot. He first dipped his foot into a swimming pool when he was a child; he liked it and …
We all have something to say. And, we all say it differently. It’s because we see things from various points of view. We bring the sum of our life experiences to each new day; we filter what we think, do and say through what has happened to us. There are moments in our lives that …
