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		<title>Quick Tip Tuesday Original: Writing tips from Mark Overmeyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s Tuesday, it must be Quick Tip Tuesday on the Stenhouse Blog, right? But this Tuesday is a bit different, because instead of sharing a Quick Tip from a Stenhouse book, we bring you a Quick Tip Original from Mark Overmeyer, author of What Student Writing Teaches Us and When Writing Workshop Isn&#8217;t Working. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/09/07/quick-tip-tuesday-original-writing-tips-from-mark-overmeyer/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Friday: Thank-You Notes to Elementary School Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s poem comes from our very own Charles Fuhrken, author of What Every Elementary Teachers Needs to Know About Reading Tests.
Enjoy!
Thank-You Notes to Elementary School Teachers
Charles Fuhrken
To Mrs. Box,
First grade teacher,
For days I stared
out the window at
the playground
when I was supposed to
read about a boy
named Dick and a girl
named Jane. Instead of corner
time, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/09/03/poetry-friday-thank-you-notes-to-elementary-school-teachers/</link>
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		<title>Stenhouse books in Rwanda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June we told you about how some of books made their way to Belize to help teachers there improve literacy education. Now we have another report from Rwanda, where Juliana Meehan took copies of Yellow Brick Roads and Words, Words, Words by Janet Allen, Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, and Nonfiction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/09/02/stenhouse-books-in-rwanda/</link>
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		<title>Podcast: Lisa Miller on digital storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Miller&#8217;s new book, Make Me a Story: Teaching Writing Through Digital Storytelling, shows teachers how to integrate technology into their writing instruction. In this podcast Lisa talks about how easy and simple it is for teachers to create a digital story with their students.

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		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/09/01/podcast-lisa-miller-on-digital-storytelling/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip Tuesday: The paper shuffle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homework assignments, handouts, field trip requests &#8212; even in this age of technology, teachers still deal with a lot of paperwork. In this week&#8217;s Quick Tip, Rick Wormeli shares how he deals with the &#8220;paper shuffle&#8221; in his classroom from his book Day One and Beyond. Leave your ideas in the comment section &#8211; how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/08/31/quick-tip-tuesday-the-paper-shuffle/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Friday: Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[School has already started in many parts of the country or will start next week. This week&#8217;s Poetry Friday poem goes out to all students and teachers who are facing one of school&#8217;s inevitable features: the spelling quiz.
Enjoy!
Perfect
Kenn Nesbitt 
Today I managed something
that I’ve never done before.
I turned in this week’s spelling quiz
and got a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/08/27/poetry-friday-perfect/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip Tuesday: Nudging kids to make a choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nonfiction reading, research, and reporting is hard work. For students to maximize their inquiry experience, they should choose a topic they care about, know something about, and wonder about,&#8221; writes Stephanie Harvey in her book Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Reseach in Grades 3-8. But some students find it difficult to pick a topic or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/08/24/quick-tip-tuesday-nudging-kids-to-make-a-choice/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Friday: To the Woman (We Think You&#8217;re a Teacher) with the Books on the 2 Train</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we have a great poem by &#8220;some anonymous students&#8221; that Teri Lesesne used at the end of her book, Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers. &#8220;It speaks volumes to me and to all whose hope it is to connect kids to books,&#8221; writes Teri about the poem she received [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/08/20/poetry-friday-to-the-woman-we-think-youre-a-teacher-with-the-books-on-the-2-train/</link>
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		<title>Questions &amp; Authors: The Power of Memoir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has a story to tell. Kimberly Hill Campbell realized that adolescents in middle and high school especially appreciate reading &#8212; and writing &#8212; memoir. In this installment of our Questions &#38; Authors series, Kimberly shares some great memoirs for reading, followed by prompts that support writing a memoir. Kimberly&#8217;s recent book Less Is More: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/08/18/questions-authors-the-power-of-memoir/</link>
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		<title>Quick Tip Tuesday: Concepts and Vocabulary &#8211; Categories and Labels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Quick Tip comes from Janet Allen&#8217;s recent book, Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary Grades 4-12. In Inside Words Janet provides teachers with important instructional tools that support building background knowledge; teach words that are critical to comprehension; provide guidance during reading and writing; develop a conceptual framework; and assess students&#8217; understanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2010/08/17/quick-tip-tuesday-concepts-and-vocabulary-categories-and-labels/</link>
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