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Workshops and Contact Information

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I tailor workshops to each audience. These presentations include:

For All Adults:

- So, You Want to Write for Kids?

For Teachers:
- Everyone Has a Story: Using Real Life Events to Write Fiction
- Creative Writing in the Classroom
- Teaching the Narrative
- Put Pizzazz into Your Students Writing: Using Fiction Techniques to Write Grab-You-by-the-Collar Expository Essays
- Writing Across the Curriculum: How Short Fiction Supplements Science and Social Studies Instruction
- The Red Pencil is Your Best Friend: Developing Focused Critiquing Skills
- Wikis, Word Choice, and Red Fonts: The Revision Wave of the Future
- Reading, Writing, & Technology: Modeling New Writing Strategies for Grades 3-8
- Show Don’t Tell: Create a Genre Setting (with a Little Help from the Masters)
- Show Don’t Tell: Create a Character (with a Little Help from the Masters)
- Reading, Writing, & Technology: Modeling New Writing Strategies for Grades 3-8

For 5th-9th Grade Students:
- Solve this Mystery: How Do You Write a Whodunit?"
-Go, Team, Go! Write a Sports Story
-Stories that are out of this World: Write a Science Fiction or Fantasy Story
-What Doth Thou Scribe? Write a Historical Story
-Solve this Mystery: How Do You Write a Whodunit?
- Put Pizzazz into Your Writing

Book Reviews

"Carol Baldwin's text invites reluctant teachers of writing to take comfortable risks in their attempts to nurture and support student writers... Baldwin avoids oversimplistic and formulaic processes, offering instead several authentic writing activities and mini-lesson ideas likely to inspire student engagement and growth as writers--and help their teachers value creative writing as an integral component of the writing curriculum. " Wendy Glenn, Ph.D., University of Connecticut

"Although middle school students have stories to tell, getting them to tell those stories can be a daunting job for a teacher. Carol Baldwin's book "Teaching the Story" is a marvel of clear, concise, and helpful prompts teachers can use to help jump start a student's imagination...When students discover that they can transform the stories in their heads into something they're proud to have other people read, they may not even realize how much they're learning." Stephanie Greene, regional advisor for SCBWI Carolinas, author of 17 juvenile books.

"This is the most user-friendly, well-organized guide I've found for teaching writing to students. Carol Baldwin cuts out the clutter and goes directly to the nuts and bolts of crafting short stories. Her mini-lessons fit seamlessly into established curriculum, and the reproducible activities help even teachers who aren't writers themselves make creative writing fun for their students."
----Laura Backes, publisher of Children's Book Insider

"Teaching the Story is a thoroughly 'student-friendly' curriculum supplement that will enable classroom teachers to prepare their students for standardized testing, as well as for their academic writing assignments. Baldwin's flexible approach to teaching creative writing skills to children is especially appropriate for students seeking to write coherent and readable sports, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical stories...Teaching the Story is strongly recommended for use with grades 5 through 8."

-The Midwest Book Review, "Library Bookwatch" and "Internet Bookwatch," June 2007"

"Middle school teachers can breathe a sigh of relief. There is now a great handbook to help teach writing. It's Teaching the Story: Fiction Writing in Middle School. Along with the book there are more than 70 customizable transparencies and reproducibles included on the accompanying Resource CD. The ideas in the book then help you encourage students through every step of the writing process, from brainstorming to critiques to the elements of story to genres. This book is worth its weight in gold – but it's just $23.95 plus s/h from Maupin House. For grades six to eight."
-www.TeachingK-8.com

Friday, May 1, 2009

The Day After

It is May 1 but my mind, as I biked through Fairfield Glade in Crossville, Tennessee was still on yesterday, National Poetry Day. Besides being able to compose it on a bike, boat, beach, or battlefield, poets of any age can write a haiku. What better way to teach the importance of every word or syllable than by adhering to the simple 5-7-5 structure?

Here is my contribution to the joy of writing poetry--and to celebrating this beautiful Tennessee plateau.

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