Sentences with phrase «teaching nonfiction writing»

Part One provides a complete overview of teaching nonfiction writing in the primary grades and includes:

Preston also taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University and served as managing editor of Curator, a journal for museum professionals.

Not exact matches

She teaches nonfiction and creative writing for Gotham Writers Workshop and she has three tattoos.

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

This «Core of the Core» comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, «closely read» texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts.

Helping teachers become experts in teaching science, history, geography, mathematics, and fiction and nonfiction reading and writing; and

The standards also emphasize the need for teaching students to conduct research and write informational texts, which means most of us need to beef - up our teaching skills for nonfiction reading and writing.

Similarly, the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education, or NAATE, which provides specialized professional growth opportunities for educators, works to retain teachers and school leaders through opportunities to grow in data - driven instruction techniques, peer leadership, and communication and feedback.32 Building on past professional learning successes via its network of teacher leaders in 185 sites, the National Writing Project's, or NWP's, College Ready Writers Program demonstrated that teachers will commit to and participate in high quality professional development that helps them strategize approaches to teach argument writing using nonfiction texts and provided adaptable classroom matWriting Project's, or NWP's, College Ready Writers Program demonstrated that teachers will commit to and participate in high quality professional development that helps them strategize approaches to teach argument writing using nonfiction texts and provided adaptable classroom matwriting using nonfiction texts and provided adaptable classroom materials.

Teaching Nonfiction Writing K - 3, Tony Stead shows you how to open the door to the rich world of nonfiction writing that goes beyond «what I did» narratives and animal rWriting K - 3, Tony Stead shows you how to open the door to the rich world of nonfiction writing that goes beyond «what I did» narratives and animal rwriting that goes beyond «what I did» narratives and animal reports.

Take inspiration from examples of authors who have taught writing courses including Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz, Salman Rushdie, the late Maya Angelou and countless more nonfiction or fiction authors teaching workshops and seminars, online and at colleges and workshops.

Anastasia Suen writes and edits nonfiction books for children and teens, and she teaches children's book writing in her online workshops.

Partial Bibliography Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974, poems) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, nonfiction narrative) Holy the Firm (1977, nonfiction narrative) Living by Fiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundance (2016)

Melinda also teaches writing workshops and provides one - on - one editorial consulting for aspiring nonfiction authors.

One thing I learned from the two nonfiction anthology proposals I wrote is that it taught me to think about the target audience for my book and also to look at the competition and see what the heck was out there already.

I don't regret getting the Masters degree, but I found it more helpful in learning to write nonfiction, and in helping me develop my teaching skills.

Melinda teaches writing workshops and provides one - on - one editorial consulting for aspiring nonfiction authors.

WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS RESIDENCY Writers in the Schools (WITS), a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures, is looking for creative writers — poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, cartoonists / graphic novelists, and playwrights — who are passionate about teaching the power and pleasure of writing to young people and who are excited to collaborate with public school teachers.

After I left traditional publishing, I taught fiction writing classes and wrote some nonfiction but it wasn't until the other Sun City Sluts and I started writing our mystery that I really got excited again.

The following year she began teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she is now a Professor in the English Dept.. In Creative Writing, she teaches poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and script wWriting, she teaches poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and script writingwriting.

She teaches creative writing and literature courses at the University of Denver and is the nonfiction editor of Better: Culture & Lit.

In a recent interview, indie writer Joanna Penn said that her fiction and nonfiction (teaching people how to write and publish) bring in about the same amount of revenue, but the crossover in audience is only about 10 percent.

This is a comprehensive, step - by - step, self - study course that teaches you how to write a compelling nonfiction book proposal, particularly in the digital era of authorship.

It is still an introduction to creative writing, but instead of breaking the semester down by genre — six weeks of fiction, five weeks of poetry, and three to four weeks of screenwriting or creative nonfiction (depending on the semester)-- I was going to blend them all together and teach not a genre of creative writing but creative writing itself.

You might write fiction because you have a story to tell; or nonfiction to share your passion or expertise teaching a skill or solving a problem; or to build your visibility for your business; or to add an income stream.

She also teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned her MFA in nonfiction writing, and she tweets @RoJoOhNo.

I lecture at Boston College, where I've taught creative and nonfiction writing for 15 years.

Like reading a good book, each speaker drew me in and told me their story, a story that was meant to teach me something about writing creative nonfiction.»

As Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Regis College, he teaches courses in creative nonfiction, writing as community service, and copyediting as well as freshman compoWriting Program at Regis College, he teaches courses in creative nonfiction, writing as community service, and copyediting as well as freshman compowriting as community service, and copyediting as well as freshman composition.

Her nonfiction — FINDING AUTHOR SUCCESS, CROSS MARKETING MAGIC FOR AUTHORS, and the newest, WRITE BRAIN / LEFT BRAIN — focuses on helping authors by teaching them how to bridge the gap between the creative writer and the marketing author.

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The MFA program welcomes writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction who wish to prepare for careers in writing, editing, and / or teaching.

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The two objectives are to create a publishable or producible body of work, as a Major Writing Project, in one of five genres (fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, film and poetry) and to train students in the teaching of writing at the post-secondaryWriting Project, in one of five genres (fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, film and poetry) and to train students in the teaching of writing at the post-secondarywriting at the post-secondary level.

As I announced earlier this year, I will once again be teaching a creative nonfiction workshop at the Paris American Academy during the month of July (this Paris workshop also entails fiction and journal - writing classes, taught by novelists John Biguenet and Lauren Grodstein).