Melissa from Walker Books has prepared some fabulous comprehensive teaching notes that you can download from www.walkerbooks.com.au – they cover all sorts of things to do with how Letters to Leonardo was written – and they mention some of the themes in the book: mental illness art family relationships emotional control Themes summarise a [...]
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LETTERS TO LEONARDO BLOG TOUR DAY 12 – THEMES
Posted in BLOG TOUR, Classroom activities, Writing exercises on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF “STAR JUMPS” – A class writing activity from award-winning poet, Lorraine Marwood
Posted in Writing exercises, tagged classrooom writing, Lorraine Marwood, Poetry, Star Jumps, verse novels on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Based on her wonderful new verse novel, “Star Jumps”, about hope in the face of drought, Lorraine Marwood has provided a great classroom writing activity for us. Thanks so much Lorraine. CLASS WRITING ACTIVITY Do you have a shed at your place? Or at a friend or relative’s place? Can you close your eyes and [...]
SALLY MURPHY’S WRITING EXERCISE – based on “Pearl Verses the World”
Posted in Writing exercises on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sally Murphy is the published author of nearly 30 books, and has many more ‘in the pipeline. She is also a teacher, wife and mother, and runs a book review site, www.aussiereviews.com Sally’s first passion is writing for children, and she loves to encourage young writers in their craft. Below is a writing exercise based [...]
MEET AUTHOR JULIE NICKERSON
Posted in Writing exercises on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today, Julie Nickerson, author of Aussie Nibble, Pippa’s Perfect Ponytail is visiting my blog. It’s great to have you here, Julie. ABOUT JULIE NICKERSON Julie liked to make her own books when she was young, but didn’t consider a career in writing and became a medical scientist instead. She later spent many years living overseas [...]
A PICTURE CAN TELL MORE THAN 1000 WORDS
Posted in Classroom activities, Writing exercises on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A picture can be a great story starter. And you can use it as a writing exercise for any age group, and to help create stories of any length. The exercise can be done singly or in pairs or groups. Here’s what you do: Get each student to cut a picture out of a magazine [...]
ROTATING STORIES
Posted in Classroom activities, Writing exercises on January 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m Dee and I’m a childrens’ and young adult author. Welcome to my teachers writing helper blog. I’ve set this up to try and give you tips and new ideas to help inspire young writers in the classroom. With the new school year about to start, you might be looking for something different to try. Rotating [...]
