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Teach Writing with Focused Reading

Post Published February 17, 2014 by Jenn Stefaniak

When I first started homeschooling, I spent days scouring the Internet for ideas on teaching writing, and whoa, was I hit with barrages of information. It was overwhelming for sure, but I managed to w...
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Talent Is Overrated: Teaching the Three Rs of Great Writers

Post Published February 9, 2014 by Jenn Stefaniak

When we think of writers who have left their names etched in history, such as Robert Frost or J.K. Rowling, two words that come to mind are talented, unique, and we lift them up on a pedestal of liter...
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Rich or Poor?

Post Published January 9, 2014 by Gerry Mandel

Sammy Westfall set her story, “More or Less” (the featured story from our January/February 2014 issue) in the Philippines, where her family lives part of the time.
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Realistic Storytelling

Post Published November 11, 2013 by Gerry Mandel

I don't know about you, but I like the characters in the stories I read to seem like real people. Realistic characters have strengths and weaknesses, they talk in everyday language, they joke with the...
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History Comes Alive

Post Published September 10, 2013 by Gerry Mandel

Many Stone Soup readers tell us that historical fiction is their favorite genre. We think we know why. Realistic characters, whose feelings and concerns are similar to our own, can bring the events of...
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Bullying Is Wrong

Post Published July 4, 2013 by Gerry Mandel

Bullying is just plain wrong. It hurts the person who is bullied, and the bullies usually live to regret their cruel behavior. No one wins. In “Sticks and Stones,” the featured story from the July...
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Equal Rights for Girls!

Post Published March 14, 2013 by Gerry Mandel

A girl growing up today can join a baseball team if she wants to. In the past, things were different. "Katie's League," the featured story from the March/April issue of Stone Soup, chronicles the stru...
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A Horse Story with a Twist

Post Published January 18, 2013 by Gerry Mandel

We hope all our subscribers have had a chance to read the new January/February 2013 issue of Stone Soup. There are so many great stories in this issue, it was hard to choose one to feature on our webs...
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Using Stone Soup to encourage students to produce inventive, creative writing

Post Published October 20, 2009 by William Rubel

Creative writing, as a term, was invented in the 19th century to express the idea that there was writing, and then there was creative writing. With use, the expression has lost meaning and now creativ...
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Writing Activity: using the power of analogy, with “Abigail’s Cove” by Brooke Hayes, 12

Post Published July 22, 2009 by William Rubel

Analogy is a very powerful literary tool. It is hard to imagine what it feels like for someone else to have lots of competing thoughts in their head, but when we read this story it is easy to visualiz...
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