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Small Writing

Lift the level of student writing. Focus: Teaching writing using bite-sized composition chunks and mentor texts. OPEN enrollment. View / print flyer and registration form. El Paso, Texas. VIEW END-OF-YEAR INTERNET SPECIAL Workshop Summary. During this workshop, Alice...

How We Write

Lift the level of student writing. Focus: Teaching the writing process with a one-sentence composition. OPEN enrollment. View / print flyer and registration form. El Paso, Texas. VIEW END-OF-YEAR INTERNET SPECIAL Workshop Summary. During this workshop, you will learn...
The Comparative Sentence

The Comparative Sentence

Slice of Life. There are days when the whole doesn’t divide easily. It seems impossible to cut neatly between the minutes and slide out a slice. Like a yeast roll it tears apart, or like a flaky biscuit it crumbles.  My present days are like that. I’m in...
My PD Journals, Part 2

My PD Journals, Part 2

March Slice of Life No. 29. In My PD Journals, Part 1, I share about the notebook I create when planning a workshop and another notebook I create during and after the workshop.  In the comments of that post, I was asked, “How do you use them once the workshops...
My PD Journals, Part 2

My PD Journals, Part 1

March Slice of Life No. 28. This morning, I was searching my PD journals for… Hmmm? What was I searching for?  At this very moment, I don’t recall what I was searching for, and since it isn’t pertinent to what I am now thinking about, I  won’t...

Crafting Sentences

The simple declarative sentence is the building block of of all composition. -Alice Nine. OPEN enrollment. View / print flyer and registration form. El Paso, Texas.                          a Growing Strong Writers workshop. Growing Strong Writers Workshop Series with...