Creative Writing Resources
Creative Writing Master Classes
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Traits of Writing: A Professional Development Video Series on DVD $395.00 Scholastic Teaching Resources Product Wins Communicators Awards Video Competition Traits of Writing: A Professional Development Video Series received an Award of Excellence in the Communicator Awards 2005 Video Competition. This international awards comp… |
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HOW PICTURE BOOKS ARE MADE The Process from the Birth of an Idea to a Printed Book (Kidz Investigate Series) Announcing three new learning videos with a unique twist. The Kidz Investigate videos are designed for children and hosted by children. Young audiences everywhere will be captivated as they watch the hosts investigate a variety of topics that are designed to interest children. These inquisitive young investigators probe how to become a successful writer, the life of an award-winning author, and ho… |
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Rory’s Story Cubes $3.25 Rory’s Story Cubes is a pocket-sized creative story generator, providing hours of imaginative play for all ages. There are infinite ways to play with Rory’s Story Cubes – Try them as a party game or ice-breaker, for literacy development, speaking and listening skills, creative inspiration, a mental workout or problem solving. Anyone can become a great storyteller and there are no wrong answers. Si… |
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Learning Resources Creative Writing Flip Chart $8.55 Double-sided flip chart featuring cards with real-life photography and unique writing prompts, inviting students to tell or write a brand-new story with each use. Mix and match image cards or phrase cards to determine the characters, plot and setting for each original story. Images and words allow readers of all levels, as well as ELLs and students with special needs, to create stories. Includes 6… |
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Writing Prompts Gr 8 $16.22 These high-interest prompt cards encourage students to express creativity while learning how to write using a variety of styles. Each box includes prompts in six categories: Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, Descriptive, Poetry, and Journal writing. Prompts can be used in a variety of ways: Whole-class assignments, Homework Assignments, center activities, small projects, writing test practice. … |
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The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis $29.94 The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis redefines the professional strategies and personal qualities that this current age of incessant crisis demands of leaders in corporate C-suites, boardrooms, courtrooms, and in the corridors of political power. Drawing on dozens of extensive interviews with prominent leaders who describe and reflect on their most significant experiences, Richard Le… |
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Poetry Writing $12.99 Guide students through the process of writing poetry. Inspire them with creative project ideas. Use templates and frames to help them get started. Share their results in ways that promote pride and a sense of accomplishment. |
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Cursive Writing Activities $12.99 Cursive Writing Activities is designed to help students master important handwriting skills. The book provides a variety of activities that allow students to practice letter formations as well as real world skills such as simple sentences, paragraph writing, creative writing, and everyday writing. Anyone using these instructional and fun worksheets will gain the confidence needed to keep his or her handwriting legible and free of mistakes.Activities include: writing letters and numbers, answering questions with written responses, completing creative writing activities, practicing writing with word games, and more. |
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Tips & Tricks for Using Digital Photography $18.99 Learn dozens of creative ways to incorporate digital cameras and photography into your classroom-writing prompts, art projects, report presentations, pen pals, and more! |
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Publishing a Newspaper $12.99 Students build practical and creative writing skills as they learn about all that goes into a newspaper–from news stories, reviews, and editorials to recipes, comics, and ads. |
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Reading Takes You Places Notepad from Debbie Mumm $3.49 Use notepads for notes to students, thank you notes, invitations, parent letters, scrapbooking, creative writing assignments, and more! 50 sheets. 5 1/4″ x 8 1/4″ |
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Beginning Writing $10.99 Give emergent writers the practice they need as they progress from the scribbling stage to writing paragraphs. This book features a variety of activities for the different phases of writing, as well as writing samples from actual emergent writers.The activities target standards in these areas: the writing process conventions in writing writing using graphic methods to describe high frequency vocabulary complete sentences |
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2011 Poet’s Market $5.11 The most complete resource available for poets who want to submit and publish their poetry—it now includes a subscription to Poet’s Market online (the poetry section of writersmarket.com). This book is for beginning poets who don’t know how or where to start; experienced poets who need updated market information; instructors of creative writing, especially at the adult level; libraries and writing organizations/centers. Features include: more than 1,200 listings, including those for magazines and journals, book/chapbook publishers, and contests, all 100% updated annually; articles, interviews, and how-to guides keep you up-to-date on trends in the poetry publishing world; additional listings for your personal enrichment, including conferences and workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, state arts organizations, and glossaries. |
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Author’s Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing and Publishing Your Book $1.99 For everyone who has ever been told, “You should write a book,” but has no idea how to get started, here is an essential, no-nonsense guide to every step of the writing and publishing process. In The Author’s Toolkit, veteran writer, editor, and book doctor Mary Embree provides readers with an all-inclusive lesson on what it takes to create, develop, and promote both fiction and nonfiction books—from nurturing the seeds of a book idea, to outlining the flow of the book itself, to taking the finished manuscript to possible publishers. She details the fundamentals of the creative process—such as how to delineate characters, organize the plot, find the “hook,” and avoid common writing pitfalls—and provides detailed guidance on such practical business matters as registering copyrights, understanding contracts, seeking literary agents, publishing electronically, creating a professional-looking manuscript, promoting and marketing the finished book, and much more.Aspiring and veteran writers will also discover a wealth of real-world resources, including leads for professional advice, information on writers’ websites and publications, listings of writers’ organizations, and much more. Handy, to-the-point, and organized in a straightforward step-by-step format, The Author’s Toolkit is a resource no author should be without.• Details the entire process of writing a book: from the basic idea to the finished manuscript• Provides a wide range of resources for writers, such as publications, web- sites, writers’ groups, and more• Concise, easy-to-follow, and filled with valuable information for both beginning and veteran writers |
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Beyond Rainbows & Yellow Brick Roads $9.95 Tarringo T. Vaughan was born in 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts right in the depth of poverty and inner city destruction. As a child he watched those around him struggle and survive on minimal resources. His mother was young and left to raise him on her own, a challenge she embraced and valued. But as a young child Tarringo did have a strong support from a large family that included his grandmother, two uncles and five aunts. And it was the talent of his oldest uncle that inspired Tarringo’s creative side. He learned the art of expression and found a new ambition to inspire others through a creativity he had yet to find. He was a quiet child because he tried to make sense of everything around him. He watched with interpretive eyes and saw all the desperation that filled the streets as a motivation to find a better way.In 1995, after being the first to graduate high school in his family, Tarringo attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as a computer science major. But his freshman year creative writing course quickly changed his course of study to English. Again Tarringo was praised for his writing in his classes but still he lacked a real commitment to getting his literary voice beyond the classrooms until the poetic words of Langston Hughes influenced him to write poetry and in his words he began to express all that he had seen growing up and wanted to share with the world the challenges and struggles of those commonly looked past. In 2000, after he obtained his Bachelors of Arts Degree, Tarringo knew he had to start his journey to publish his heart for the world to listen. |
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Calculus II $295.69 Created specifically for a Calculus II course and as a second volume for students who have completed either the Larson team’s Calculus I, 8/e, or Calculus I with Precalculus, 2/e text, Calculus II, 8/e, comprises chapters 6-10 of the full Calculus, 8/e, text. The text continues to offer instructors and students new and innovative teaching and learning resources. The Calculus series was the first to use computer-generated graphics, to include exercises involving the use of computers and graphing calculators, to be available in an interactive CD-ROM format, to be offered as a complete, online calculus course, and to offer a two-semester Calculus I with Precalculus text. Every edition of the series has made the mastery of traditional calculus skills a priority, while embracing the best features of new technology and, when appropriate, calculus reform ideas. Now, the Eighth Edition is the first calculus program to offer algorithmic homework and testing created in Maple so that answers can be evaluated with complete mathematical accuracy. Two primary objectives guided the authors in writing this book: to develop precise, readable materials for students that clearly define and demonstrate concepts and rules of calculus and to design comprehensive teaching resources for instructors that employ proven pedagogical techniques and saves the instructor time. The Eighth Edition continues to provide an evolving range of conceptual, technological, and creative tools that enable instructors to teach the way they want to teach and students to learn they way they learn best. |
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Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life $22.5 When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. But in Citizen Speak, Andrew J. Perrin argues that these activities are only a small part of democratic citizenship—a standard of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.For Citizen Speak, Perrin met with labor, church, business, and sports organizations and proposed to them four fictive scenarios: what if your senator is involved in a scandal, or your police department is engaged in racial profiling, or a local factory violates pollution laws, or your nearby airport is slated for expansion? The conversations these challenges inspire, Perrin shows, require imagination. And what people can imagine doing in response to those scenarios depends on what’s possible, what’s important, what’s right, and what’s feasible. By talking with one another, an engaged citizenry draws from a repertoire of personal and institutional resources to understand and reimagine responses to situations as they arise. Building on such political discussions, Citizen Speak shows how a rich culture of association and democratic discourse provides the infrastructure for a healthy democracy. |
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Dyslexia $25.25 This third edition of Gavin Reid’s popular book for non-specialist teachers has been thoroughly revised throughout and supplemented with additional material to reinforce the link between theory and practice. Dyslexia is a comprehensive overview of the field, providing more than just a quick fix to immediate difficulties by introducing the evidence base for why particular approaches may be effective.Topics include reading, spelling, creative writing, study skills, differentiation, identification of dyslexia, individual learning styles, the role of parents and policy and provision for dyslexia. A concluding section provides information on additional support and resources for use by teachers.Throughout, the book emphasises that approaches suitable for students with dyslexia will also benefit the whole class, building upon the teacher’s repertoire and empowering them to be better teachers. |
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Expat Entrepreneur $16.49 Tens of thousands of people now move overseas for work or pleasure. If this is you, read on…Going to live in a new country can be the catalyst for a sea-change in your career. Opportunities that existed in one country may dry up in another. Sometimes it makes sense not to pursue one single career path but to adopt a shifting, growing, portfolio of portable careers.Section 1 arms you with practical advice on how to choose a business idea that works for you and how to develop the right mindset.Section 2 shares the remarkable stories of more than 23 international entrepreneurs as they share how they’ve maintained and built rewarding, portable careers in all four corners of the world.Section 3 provides extensive links, resources and tips for expatriate entrepreneurs living in 35 countriesIf you are considering working for yourself in a foreign land then this inspirational guide belongs in your suitcase, wherever you may be,wherever you may go and whatever you may hope to become.ABOUT THE AUTHOR Since 1987, professional writer, publisher and journalist,Jo Parfitt has taught word processing to housewives in Dubai, made and sold date chutney in Oman and taught creative writing in Norway. A former editor of Woman Abroad magazine, she has also been involved in network marketing, sold books for Dorling Kindersley, run a CV writing service and made Christmas decorations from the flowers in her Middle Eastern garden. Jo’s articles on portable careers have been featured all over the world in publications such as Living Abroad, Emirates Woman, Gulf Air Golden Falcon,Expatrium, Eurograduate, Transitions Abroad, Nexus, Hobson’s Career Guides, Women’s Business, Woman’s Journal, Bonjour,Resident Abroad, Independent on Sunday, The European and The Weekly Telegraph. From her current home in The Netherlands she specialises in helping others to write their books and get published. |
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Hiding out: Creative resistance among anonymous workbloggers. $69 Anonymous workbloggers—employees who write online diaries about their work—are often simultaneously productive workers and savage critics of the corporate cultures in which they toil. Writing under an assumed identity, these workers create satirical portraits of their supervisors and colleagues, rail against management gurus and corporate buzzwords, celebrate time-wasting capers, and daydream about quitting. Their irreverent and fictionalized accounts of work, which are shielded from the gaze of co-workers and supervisors, reveal how office workers critically negotiate a labor process that, increasingly, demands their hearts and minds.;This study, which comprises an overview of media and organizational responses to the phenomenon, ethnographic case study of a small group of anonymous workbloggers in the North West of England, and analysis of a broader sample of workblogs from both sides of the Atlantic, explores anonymous workblogging as a window on the nature of dissatisfaction and alienation among knowledge workers. Considering these workers as authors, it reveals that a small yet vocal group of cynical workers are engaged in sophisticated, creative, and networked forms of resistance, exploiting the knowledge workplace’s decentralized structure to reclaim time and creative space from corporate culture’s encroachment.;Paying close attention to the artistry and craftsmanship that workers employ in writing blogs, this study draws attention to the diversion of significant creative and intellectual resources away from the labor process. Treating employee dissent as an intellectually and technologically sophisticated phenomenon that emerges from the contemporary white-collar labor process, this dissertation argues that—in concert with ecologically and ethically driven sustainability mandates—the creative activity of a very small and disparate number of talented and disaffected workers can produce a counter-hegemonic force in the cultural realm. However, using |
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Hiding out: Creative resistance among anonymous workbloggers. $49.99 Anonymous workbloggers—employees who write online diaries about their work—are often simultaneously productive workers and savage critics of the corporate cultures in which they toil. Writing under an assumed identity, these workers create satirical portraits of their supervisors and colleagues, rail against management gurus and corporate buzzwords, celebrate time-wasting capers, and daydream about quitting. Their irreverent and fictionalized accounts of work, which are shielded from the gaze of co-workers and supervisors, reveal how office workers critically negotiate a labor process that, increasingly, demands their hearts and minds.;This study, which comprises an overview of media and organizational responses to the phenomenon, ethnographic case study of a small group of anonymous workbloggers in the North West of England, and analysis of a broader sample of workblogs from both sides of the Atlantic, explores anonymous workblogging as a window on the nature of dissatisfaction and alienation among knowledge workers. Considering these workers as authors, it reveals that a small yet vocal group of cynical workers are engaged in sophisticated, creative, and networked forms of resistance, exploiting the knowledge workplace’s decentralized structure to reclaim time and creative space from corporate culture’s encroachment.;Paying close attention to the artistry and craftsmanship that workers employ in writing blogs, this study draws attention to the diversion of significant creative and intellectual resources away from the labor process. Treating employee dissent as an intellectually and technologically sophisticated phenomenon that emerges from the contemporary white-collar labor process, this dissertation argues that—in concert with ecologically and ethically driven sustainability mandates—the creative activity of a very small and disparate number of talented and disaffected workers can produce a counter-hegemonic force in the cultural realm. However, using |
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Human Resources $13.95 Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ‘plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. Pilfered rhetorics fed into the machine are spit out as bungled associations among money, shit, culture, work and communication. With the help of online engines that numericize language, Human Resources explores writing as a process of encryption.Deeply inflected by the polyvocality and encoded rhetorics of the screen, Human Resources is perched at the limits of language, irreverently making and breaking meaning. Navigating the crumbling boundaries among page, screen, reader, engine, writer and database, Human Resources investigates wasting words and words as waste – and the creative potential of salvage. |