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Creating a Literary Magazine
With the right preparation, having students create a literary magazine can be a terrific experience.
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Creating a Literary Magazine - Part Two
Poetry can provide a great way to get a literary magazine going at your school.
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Parallelism Worksheet #2
Parallel structure is tricky, even for many adults! Give your class extra practice with this two-page resource. For each of 16 sentences, they rewrite it using parallel structure. Do an example or two with them to give them confidence...
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Descriptive Writing Lessons
Descriptive writing lessons can lead students on an exploration of how adjectives enhance any written work.
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E.B. White
In this biography worksheet, students read a short passage detailing the life of author E.B. White. Students then answer 6 questions about the passage they have read.
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Individual Empowerment in the Face of Oppression
Sixth graders investigate non-violent ways of dealing with conflicts by performing short plays. In this philosophy instructional activity, 6th graders discuss how men can gain power in a non-violent manner similar to Gandhi's...
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Lwot: "The World's Greatest Fiction Magazine"
LWOT is an unusual Canadian literary magazine that has survived since its beginnings in Montreal in 1908. Many of its published materials can be read online.
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Stone Soup: How to Submit Creative Writing and Art to Stone Soup
This resource accepts contributions from younger children, up through age 13. This page explains the process to follow when submitting contributions. Also at this site students will find a link to a sample issue.
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Bard College: Conjunctions: 45 Calibrations of Raymond Chandler
This article from the literary magazine from Bard College offers forty-five facts about Raymond Chandler's life and works.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Songs of the Pueblo Indians
Maintained by the Electronic Texts Center at the University of Virginia, this library reproduces a collection of poems that Lowell originally published in 1920 in the literary magazine "The Dial."
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Western Washington University: The Bellingham Review
The Bellingham Review's homepage. Includes current issue and archives.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Children's Literature Newsletter
Free monthly email newsletters featuring classic children's literature, new books, ideas and activities to use with students, and links to other Internet resources.