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Educator Corner

How Creative Writing Will Help Your Child Build Emotional Literacy

Brené Brown defines emotional literacy as “the ability to recognize the emotion we are feeling, name it, and describe what is happening to us emotionally.” She goes on to say, “We can’t effectively move through an emotional experience without emotional literacy.” Her...
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Revision: Three Games to See Writing Through Fresh Eyes

One of my most delightful discoveries about using games to teach writers was the discovery that games go far beyond idea generation. One unexpected beauty of interactive games is the ability to model the questions and experimentation that revision...
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Pesky Punctuation: Three Games to Help Writers Master Mechanics

In games, the rules are part of what makes playing fun. What if you could bring that same sense of possibility to your writers’ attitude about commas, punctuation and sentence structure? In today’s live session, we’ll explore three lively games to help...
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Word Choice: Three Games to Bring Joy to Word-Play

Painters use paint, brushes, and canvas. Writers use words. How can we help our writers to see their medium for what it is, an artistic tool? Let’s play around with words and fall in love with the way they sound and feel. In today’s live session, we’ll...
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