Monthly Archives: October 2008

I have copied the below article from the NCTE web site that deals with teachers helping student writers.  This might be of assistance when we are grading and reviewing student writing project. An Excerpt from “Sentence Combining: Building Skills through … Continue reading →

I know that seems crazy to some, but really, I love to write.  I find myself engrossed in writing projects for hours, and enjoy it more than almost anything else that I do.  The abilit to express your thoughts and … Continue reading →

I was surfing through some old National Council of Teachers of English, Classroom Notes plus and found an interesting quarterly issue dated January 2005.  It deals with many writing issues including a focus on having the students do more writing … Continue reading →

I found a web site, www.techLEARNing.com that has a lot of ideas on teaching students how to set up blogs, podcast, creating web sites and more.  You can subscribe to it on google reader and get updates. There is a … Continue reading →

There is a new web site, www.tutorjam.com , that has free tutoring services for students.  Although it was set up mainly for science and math, they have added a tutorial link for english students.  We all have some students that are … Continue reading →

We had a great book signing at The Book Blues, in Marine City, Michigan.  Close to 100 people showed up with many friends, and members from my writers group in attendance.  Sales of both of my novels went well and … Continue reading →