Kirjahaku

"Multigenre writing is an immersion in a big topic of personal importance. I want students to taste such passionate immersion. I want them to experience how that immersion, combined with the possibility of multiple genres, can waken a boldness of expression in them. Students' subjective experience with multigenre will affect their attitude toward writing. It will affect your attitude toward teaching." -Tom Romano What does it mean to write fearlessly? Tom Romano illustrates the power of multigenre papers to push students beyond the "safety zone" of narrative and exposition into a place where fact meets imagination, and research meets creativity. A place to try the untried. Fearless Writing empowers students to leap into this personal, multifaceted take on research writing by giving you specific strategies and practical ideas to help students: Generate topic ideas Design research plans Develop core elements of a multigenre project Create innovative genres and "golden threads" of unifying elements. While multigenre papers address many Common Core writing standards, Tom's passionate response to both the strengths and weaknesses of the Common Core serves as a lightning bolt of awareness, and a rallying cry for a writing curriculum of genre diversity. Expand your notion of writing and teaching writing, fearlessly. Read sample chapters here.

A children's ghost story about how a Pacific Coast Lighthouse came to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl and her grieving mother. Beautiful illustrations of both the chilling moonlight and the mysterious forests.

This is the whimsical story of a little six-inch high girl who communicates with the animals and birds of the forest. She rides the backs of an eagle by day and an owl by night, while learning about the ways of the forest, and the animals and birds that live there. Lil' Oriole, as she is named, must learn some sobering lessons about these creatures of the forest and what they must do to survive. Sometimes she realizes that cruelty is not part of how and why these animals and birds must eke out a living in the forest. Each creature is simply trying to survive, to make a living and make it through to another day. In meeting these creatures, Lil' Oriole loses some of her naivete about them, learning to appreciate each creature for its own importance in the web of things.

This is the whimsical story of a little six-inch high girl who communicates with the animals and birds of the forest. She rides the backs of an eagle by day and an owl by night, while learning about the ways of the forest, and the animals and birds that live there. Lil' Oriole, as she is named, must learn some sobering lessons about these creatures of the forest and what they must do to survive. Sometimes she realizes that cruelty is not part of how and why these animals and birds must eke out a living in the forest. Each creature is simply trying to survive, to make a living and make it through to another day. In meeting these creatures, Lil' Oriole loses some of her naivete about them, learning to appreciate each creature for its own importance in the web of things.