'Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal.'--T.S. EliotWriting thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Author Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief - and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, too!In The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, Culham demonstrates a major part of good writing...

There is power that resides in outstanding culturally diverse literature'sa power that has the potential to engage students in reading and teach them about the art and craft of writing.In Dream Wakers: Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Culture, Ruth Culham focuses her love of children's literature'sand her decades of work developing the traits of writing'son books that celebrate Latino life and culture. She provides a wide variety of ideas to teach writin...

Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision. Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision. Divided into two parts, Culham’s book provides ways to teach that are both accessible to the teacher and student. You will find ...

Teaching English as a second or foreign language is full of challenges: How do you hold students' interest? How do you ensure that they get enough practice to really learn?The Fifty Ways to Teach series gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, and ideas to help your students master English. Most of the ideas can be used for both beginning and advanced classes. Many require little to no preparation or special materials. The ideas can be used with any textbook, or w...

A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more.What's the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alison Lurie, and others? Divine assistance? Otherwo...

I don't have an Hispanic background, I didn't start as a kid. I learned Spanish as an adult, just like you.During that process I faced one of the most difficult aspects of the Spanish language: the diversity among countries! Yes, this language is different in every Spanish-speaking country. What? Nobody ever mentioned that before? I'm not surprised, I had the same experience.Learning the Local Language: Your Guide to Real World Spanish is an eBook where I share tricks and t...

SUPERCHARGE YOUR BRAIN!Discover the secrets of a world memory champion.By the age of eighteen, Christiane Stenger had won the annual Youth World Memory Training Championship-three times! Now she shares her proven brain-boosting program to help you think smarter, faster, and better than you ever thought possible. You'll learn how to:REMEMBER lists, names, numbers, and moreINCREASE your overall intelligenceENHANCE creativity a...

“Sublime . . . true and beautiful and moving.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers—now in a sparkling new translation by his longtime collaboratorWhen it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation. “It was said,” according to Chile’s newspaper of record, El Mercur...

Trivia-on-Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MárquezTake the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends!One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the best work of one of the most accomplished authors, Gabriel García Márquez, and is considered to be one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. The story begins in a remote jungle of the Colombian rainforests and spans over seven generations. It is a story about a family and ...

Originally published in 1998 as a saddle-stapled chapbook, this 20 Year Anniversary edition is a MUST for fans of Ken Rand's amazing reference book on self-editing. With exciting new cover art and expanded references, it is not to be missed. This concise book is jammed full of the kind of information it often takes beginning writers years to learn. Ken Rand offers his own advice and twenty-five years of experience for the benefit of other writers. His no-nonsense approach to editing fictio...

Judy Schulten took her first Spanish class forty years ago and has persevered in speaking Spanish (badly, perhaps, but effectively, she says) ever since. In this book she gives surprising reasons to dare to use Spanish, even quite elementary Spanish, as often as you can. The willingness to "get out there with your bad Spanish," along with good will and a friendly smile, will open doors in today's global world.Judy Schulten's philosophy applies not just to learning Spanish but also ...

“Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres.”—World Literature TodaySpanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling literary anthology of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo ...