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August #OpenWrite: A Container

Our #OpenWrite Host Emily lives in San Diego, California where she teaches at San Diego Global Vision Academy. She serves as a teacher leader at her site, creating and presenting professional development for the teaching team. Emily is also a fellow and teacher consultant with …

August #OpenWrite: Indelible Moments

Our #OpenWrite Host Emily lives in San Diego, California where she teaches at San Diego Global Vision Academy. She serves as a teacher leader at her site, creating and presenting professional development for the teaching team. Emily is also a fellow and teacher consultant with …

#OpenWrite Praise Poem

July #OpenWrite: Praise Poem

Brian Glaser has written two books of poems, All the Hills and The Sacred Heart. He has also published many essays on poetry and poetics, and he teaches English at Chapman University in Orange, California. Inspiration I find inspiration in this description of the form …

July #OpenWrite

July #OpenWrite: Monotetra

Our #OpenWrite Hosts Mo Daley and Tracie McCormick have been friends since they both taught at the same Oak Forest, IL middle school in 1995. Mo holds master’s degrees in English and reading specialist and works as a middle school reading specialist in Homewood, IL. …

July #OpenWrite

July #OpenWrite: Ghazal

The ghazal is a Persian poem that is a chain of between 5-15 couplets which can be read as independent poems with a refrain of 1-3 words that repeat. In the traditional form, the word before the refrain would rhyme in each following couplet.The refrain is repeated in the second line of each couplet. Each couplet should be about the same length.

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July #OpenWrite: Ode

Our #OpenWrite Hosts Mo Daley and Tracie McCormick have been friends since they both taught at the same Oak Forest, IL middle school in 1995. Mo holds master’s degrees in English and reading specialist and works as a middle school reading specialist in Homewood, IL. …

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July #OpenWrite: Rondeau

Our #OpenWrite Hosts Mo Daley and Tracie McCormick have been friends since they both taught at the same Oak Forest, IL middle school in 1995. Mo holds master’s degrees in English and reading specialist and works as a middle school reading specialist in Homewood, IL. …

Melanie Crowder

June #OpenWrite: Writing with Author Melanie Crowder

Melanie Crowder is the acclaimed author of several books for young readers. She writes YA historical fiction: Audacity, An Uninterrupted View of the Sky, and the forthcoming Mazie. She also writes middle grade novels of all sorts: Three Pennies, A Nearer Moon, Parched, and the …

June #OpenWrite: Marcher or Leaper?

Margaret Simon lives on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana.  Margaret has been an elementary school teacher for 32 years, most recently gifted ELA.  She renewed her National Board Certification in 2019. Her first book of children’s poetry, Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the …

June #OpenWrite: Memory Poem

Margaret Simon lives on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana.  Margaret has been an elementary school teacher for 32 years, most recently gifted ELA.  She renewed her National Board Certification in 2019. Her first book of children’s poetry, Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the …