Making the Mark

June 9, 2009

I enjoy reading children’s words.
Deciphering, decoding, and discussing their work gives me joy. A piece of writing also sends me a snapshot of what is going on inside a young writer’s busy brain. I learn more when I ask questions like: how do you feel about your title, ideas, organization, word [...]

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Young Writers Right Here

June 8, 2009

Young writers are the future.
Our children write the future!
This summer, childrenwritethefuture.com is offering a writing enrichment newsletter that will help your child build their writing fluency. Daily writing practice (excluding handwriting) will help establish a lifelong love for writing. There is nothing better than taking pen, marker, crayon, pencil to paper and doodling down ideas.
Sign [...]

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You are a Writer

May 25, 2009

You Are a Writer
We are a family of writers. Sometimes we are scribbling on napkins, ATM deposit envelopes, dollar store notepads or tapping our ideas out on a keyboard. Our children watch us.
Mia usually has a pint size notepad that fits perfectly in her uniform jumper pocket. She calls it her “just in case” notebook [...]

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Why Home Schooling is Every Parents’ Job

May 18, 2009

Why Home Schooling is Every Parents’ Job
Parents are the child’s first and best teacher. Home schooling is something that must take place whether you have opted to go the traditional private or public school route, or have decided to home school your children completely. Most traditional school years are 180 days. You must [...]

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Hi, I’m Cindy

April 27, 2009

I am a teacher, writer and architect of instruction. A twenty year veteran of varying scholarship, I have spent the majority of those years wrapped snug in the vanguard of academic thought. I have a degree in education from Loyola University with post graduate work from the University of Houston. I have experienced teaching [...]

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