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Tip Tuesday: Character Profiles

Character profiles can be lifesaving when you are trying to determine how your character would react to a certain situation. Keeping your character consistent throughout your story and even planning out their character arcs ahead of time can help you in plotting your story. Perhaps you don’t want an event that changes your character to …

Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix

What I’m Reading

Our literacy specialist came to my classroom to teach a lesson to my 6th graders, and she brought with her articles about cloning. We were about to enter into argumentative writing, and this was the perfect way to have them read and write about an informational text. She then suggested that if they were interested …

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What I’m Writing

Have I been busy? Yes, yes I have. Have I been writing? Of course! Am I working on a new book? Well…. I know that I said that I was going to work on my young adult novel that I sat aside over a year ago, but while I have been working on it, I’ve …