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About the Author
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Introduction
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Chapter 1
Fostering Meaningful Writing With Journals
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• Daily Observation Journals
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• Overheard Conversation Journals
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• Personal Reflection Journals
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Chapter 2
Moving From Storytelling to Writing Prose Vignettes
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• Vignettes About Work
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• Vignettes About People and Things
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• Vignettes About Things of the Spirit
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• Oral History Vignettes About Other People
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Chapter 3
Sparking Enthusiasm With Poetry Writing
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• Lunes
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• Cinquains and Diamantes
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• Bio-Poems
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• Apology Poems
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• Poems From Poems
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Chapter 4
Connecting Music and Literacy
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• Vignette Writing to a Favorite Piece of Music
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• The Blues and Other Kinds of Song Writing
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• Poetry and Music
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Chapter 5
Connecting Art and Literacy
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• Writing About Paintings (or Other Works of Art)
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• Writing About Other People's Photographs
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• Writing About Other People's Photographs
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• Writing About Art in Everyday Life
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Chapter 6
Fostering Imagination With Fiction
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• Tall Tales and Other Kinds of Nonsense
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• Flash Fiction From Pictures
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• Scary Tales and Ghost Stories
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• Writing Dramatic Scripts
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Chapter 7
Making It Better: Working With the Mechanics of Texts
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• Revision—Looking Again at a First Draft
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• Vocabulary Development—Choosing the Best Word
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• Spelling—Wrestling With English Orthography
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• Grammar and Punctuation—Deciding Between Spoken and Written Language
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Final Thoughts
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References
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Index
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