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Give Me a Hint!Give Me a Hint!• Take a risk. Volunteer. Do it!• Adventurous volunteers will assume

the secret identify of a beloved author whose name is attached to their back.

• The volunteers will stroll around the room and ask for hints about their identity. The helpful community will give 1 clue at a time. Volunteers may not ask questions about their identity; they may only listen to the clue.

• When volunteers think they know their identity, they may share it with the group.

Julie Anderson & Charmion Mohning, 2009 - Cy-Fair I.S.D.

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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver


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Teachers will:• examine strategies for revision and discuss how to

make them transferrable to student writing• review sources for revision mini-lessons• discuss how anchor charts are used to teach and

to review strategies and craft moves• explore the conditions for and the kind, content,

and characteristics of effective writing conferences

• study best practices in the teaching of grammar usage and language conventions


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• Hooray! It’s a Writing-Sharing Kind-of-Day! When you gather with your NBA team, share your gleanings from Ralph Fletcher’s concept of revision – Story Surgery.

• Share your writing with one another and talk about your writing “vision.” Your NBA team will point out something that’s great in your piece.


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The Golden LineThe Golden Line• In Live Writing: Breathing

Life into Your Words, Ralph Fletcher introduces us to the “Golden Line.” A golden line is a “sweet sentence that makes you sit up straight, go back, and read it all over again.” Let’s take a look at a sweet sentence.


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The Power of VerbsThe Power of VerbsTake a look at a gem from Barbara O’Connor’s How to Steal a Dog. Guess what verb the author chose to use to create this golden line.

Tanisha Brown said... "When she shut the engine off, we got _________ up in quiet."

Find other golden lines at this cool web site:http://www.greatsentences.blogspot.com/

A. tangled B. lostC. swallowedD. caught


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• Take a moment to review Ralph Fletcher’s description of “The Golden Line” in Live Writing, p. 108 – 115.

• Hunt and search for one (or more) of your own golden lines from your writing. Ask your response group for feedback and/or confirmation on your golden line.

• Add your golden nugget to a sentence strip and post it proudly.


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• Vivid details are key to creating crystal clear images in the minds of your readers. Let’s watch a masterful teacher model the process of envisioning with detail to his community of young writers.


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• Is your writing feeling outdated or perhaps a bit drab with its current arrangement of ideas? Try out a few revision techniques found in the article, “Interior Design: Revision as Focus” for an updated, fresh look.


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This imaginative commercial for Brylcreem shows the “effortless” approach to life that one man experiences.This imaginative commercial for Brylcreem shows the “effortless” approach to life that one man experiences.

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• where your feet went

• what you saw

• and what you thought


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• Basals are boring! Barry begs you to beef up the banal, blasé books. Take a revision lesson from Barry Lane’s A Reviser’s Toolbox.


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• Frank McCourt blends humor and warmth in his tales from the classroom. Check out the excerpt about the imaginative excuses he has received in his teaching career.


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