Curriculum
— We’ve partnered with the Academy of American Poets to celebrate National Poetry Month–check out their website if you haven’t before, but be aware you could lose a few hours reading!...
— Years ago, when I was doing contract negotiations for a small advertising agency, the CFO gave me some good advice at the start. Always know what you’re talking about, she...
— Here are just a few websites and programs that can be helpful for teaching creative writing for students. From lesson plans to book suggestions, these websites have a lot to...
— The Mother’s Day Gift by Mathew Thompson, age 11, Dallas, Oregon The Clay Pot by Naomi Wendland, age 12, Lusaka, Zambia These two stories deal with the same problem: the...
— We are often asked–and we often wonder–what careers our young authors and illustrators went on to as they grew up, so we were thrilled to hear from Rachel Stanley, one...
— This writing activity is based on a very funny Kurt Vonnegut lecture on the shape of stories. In this project, students learn to develop compelling narratives by graphing the plots....
— This writing activity is built around 11-year-old Ella Staats’ story, “My Mother’s Little Girl‘” published in Stone Soup in September/October 2012. Read the story and then work on your project,...
— Gifted Soup Ingredients from A-Z: Asynchrony “Discover your difference – the asynchrony with which you have been blessed or cursed and make the most of it. -Howard E. Gardner The intellectually...
— A Brief History of the Vietnam War Note: This is background history for people reading the story My Country and the Way to America written by a child who escaped...
— Self Portraits These are the winners of our first Selfie Contest. Never in history have so many people taken so many photographs of themselves as we are doing now. I...