Sharon Jennings: Reluctant to Start Writing? Have I Got a Reader For You!Sharon’s class was so popular that she had to present in the chapel at Victoria College. She explained that the typical reluctant reader is a grade six boy reading at a grade 2.5 level. To grab this group she emphasized: exciting plot accessible […]
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Bought at Packaging Your Imagination The Alchemist’s Portrait by Simon Rose The Mysterious Mummer by L.M. Falcone Good Times Travel Agency: Adventures in Ancient China by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin. I wanted to buy one of Sharon Jenning’s Bats books for reluctant readers but I only saw her books for younger readers. Workshops
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Today I attended CANSAIP’s annual conference called Packaging Your Imagination. Held at Trinity college, Toronto, the day-long conference consisted of three workshops and a keynote speaker. Between the second and third workshops, there was a sit down lunch with brief speeches from the CANSCAIP organizers. I will talk about the workshops another time. I’m still
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I have read The End. Lemony Snicket had me hooked from the very first page of The Bad Beginning, the first installment of his novel series about the Baudelaire orphans. Although his series lost some freshness for me in the middle, The Carnivorous Carnival, for example, felt like it was following the Snicket ‘formula,’ they
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