by Danielle DeFauw | Apr 30, 2018 | Family Dialogue Journals, Parent-Writers
One highlight of my daughter’s sixth birthday is her new family dialogue journal. She picked out her composition notebook covered in rainbow hearts on Saturday morning’s shopping trip. I planned to wrap it, but she snuck it out of the bag and beat me to the first...
by Danielle DeFauw | Apr 23, 2018 | Revision
Writers don’t write. They rewrite. As a teacher-writer, I welcome the inherent challenges of rewriting. Even this short blog post took more rewrites than I anticipated! Yet, isn’t that always the case with writing? Teaching others to embrace the myriad opportunities...
by Danielle DeFauw | Feb 27, 2018 | Getting Started
Teachers: Have you ever said goodbye to your students, only wishing you could teach them for a bit longer? Letting go has always been hard for me whether it was my third-grade students, my elementary readers I supported as a literacy specialist, or my preservice or...
