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⛱️ Summer Writing Challenge 1📝
18th century eccentric Timothy Dexter wrote a book titled A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (it's true, look it up). 👉 Here's the challenge:
Write something to go with this title. Write a poem, a song, a short story--whatever the title inspires!
*Share your short creation or an excerpt in the comments.

🏆 The prize? Knowing that a book exists called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones and amusing yourself and others with your brilliant creativity😁

𝘼𝒓𝙩 𝙞𝒔 𝒗𝙞𝒔𝙪𝒂𝙡 𝙡𝒂𝙣𝒈𝙪𝒂𝙜𝒆, so it's a fun and useful way to teach grammar and writing concepts. Use my free resource below to practice Parts of Speech. If your children do the Extension activity, they can post their favorite sentences to the Padlet (link is in the comments). Happy teaching! 💖
👉DM me if you have any 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 or would like a 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 of this resource.

Writing instruction tip for teaching young writers:
🖍USE ART!🎨
Including drawing in the writing process helps with ideas, details, structure, and organization.
"For young children, drawing is writing; it gives them the opportunity to do what writers do: to think, to remember, to get ideas, to observe, to record." Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe (𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴)

To help inspire the ladies at the Rise and Shine Women’s Conference to not only write their stories but to consider doing so through poetry, I'm going to read this lovely poem by Luci Shaw. I hope it inspires you too 😌💖

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📣 Many Texas colleges and universities are still accepting applications! 👉DM me when you're ready to craft your application essay. 𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙄 𝙪𝙨𝙚! 🕵️‍♂️😳

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Writer's block? Revision or editing struggles? 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙞𝙩!
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Here's the link to a game on my Padlet to help your young writers learn adjectives and adverbs. The game is set to the 3rd grade level.
👉 DM me to request a game!

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