Education, Illustration, Lessons Learned In Combat, Literacy

Everything I’ve Learned about Illustration Study…

..has not yet been realized. After all, I only began dipping my toe into these lovely waters two years ago, when I first read Katie Wood Ray's fantastic book on the subject, In Pictures and In Words: Teaching the Qualities of Good Writing Through Illustration Study (2010). But in that short amount of time, I have learned some… Continue reading Everything I’ve Learned about Illustration Study…

Education, Literacy

Literacy Essentials

Recently a small group of colleagues and I created a document that we intended to be a "gold standard" of sorts for teachers in our K-6 school who currently have the luxury of a 90-minute literacy block. I am posting it here with the hope that my readers could give me some feedback about what… Continue reading Literacy Essentials