I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

“Conditions for real writing: 1) Personal (choice) 2) Interpersonal (social) 3) Time/space to do quality work 4) Pay-off (purpose/feedback)“ – Ralph Fletcher These two poetry teaching books ...

Poets often write poems about special events or important ... then present these in a scrap book anthology. Read the poems aloud and see if other children can guess the emotions evoked in the ...

Tom Angleberger is the author of the popular Origami Yoda series and the Flytrap Files series, as well as several other books ...