[CALIBK12] Fw: [CCBC-Net] New resource for teachers, librarians, and writers

[Sandy Schuckett]

Calibbers may be interested in the message forwarded below.

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Sandy Schuckett
California School Library Assn.
Liaison to CTA
2312 Claremont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-665-9811
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carmela Martino" <carmelamartino at sbcglobal.net>
To: <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 6:20 AM
Subject: [CCBC-Net] New resource for teachers, librarians, and writers


>I am pleased to announce a new resource for teachers, librarians,
> and writers: www.TeachingAuthors.com
> <http://www.teachingauthors.com/> . This is a new blog by six
> children's book authors with a wide range (and many years) of
> experience teaching writing to children, teens, and adults: April
> Halprin Wayland, Esther Hershenhorn, Jeanne Marie Grunwell Ford,
> JoAnn Early Macken, Mary Ann Rodman, and me, Carmela Martino. Via
> the blog, we plan to share our unique perspective as writing
> teachers who are also working writers. One of our regular blog
> features will be "Writing Workouts"--writing exercises that can
> be used by young writers and those who are, as Esther Hershenhorn
> likes to say, "young at heart." We invite classroom teachers to
> try these exercises with their students, and adult writers to try
> them on their own. 
> 
> 
> 
> In addition to discussing what we've learned about writing and
> the teaching of writing, we also hope to accomplish something on
> the blog that we can't do on our websites: facilitate
> conversations between writers, teachers, and librarians about the
> subjects we love best--writing, teaching writing, and reading. To
> encourage that interaction, we would like to solicit topic
> suggestions from our readers. Please see the "Ask the Teaching
> Authors" section in the blog sidebar to submit writing or
> teaching questions you would like us to address.
> 
> Our new blog is a work-in-progress. The current plan is to post
> three times per week, rotating through a schedule that has each
> Teaching Author posting every two weeks. We began our regular
> posts on Monday, April 27, with a series about who we are and how
> we became Teaching Authors. That series will end just in time for
> Children's Book Week, which will relate directly to our second
> topic.
> 
> So please stop by and take a peek. Esther's post of Wednesday
> includes our first "Writing Workout." Please let us know what you
> think!
> 
> Carmela
> 
> Carmela Martino
> www.TeachingAuthors.com 
> 
> 
> 
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