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Blazing Pencils offers more than 150 writing ideas that can be used by students and teachers alike. A key virtue is the fine balance between text, exercises, and examples. The guide is accompanied by a complimentary 48-page writing notebook.
“I just started using Blazing Pencils in my English classes and am already getting great results.”—Dean Schneider, Ensworth School, Nashville, TN

ISBN 0-915924-19-6

If you or your students dread the process of revision, this book will prove transformative. Deep Revision covers topics such as: revision as a natural process, learning to revise by editing other people’s writing, changing media to revise, and revising nonfiction with fiction techniques. Meredith Sue Willis offers a wide array of specific revision exercises for fiction and nonfiction.
“Hundreds of ideas on how to enjoy the work of making writing fresher, richer, and more authentic.”—Kliatt

ISBN 0-915924-41-2

Personal Fiction Writing treats the writing of fiction as a natural process that anyone can do with pleasure. The book includes more than 400 writing assignments based on such essential topics as: describing place, people, and action; writing dialogues and monologues; and developing structure. Each chapter has numerous examples by student and adult writers. For this edition, Willis has added a new chapter, “Shaping Longer Works.”
“A terrific resource for the classroom teacher as well as the novice writer.”—Harvard Educational Review

ISBN 0-915924-62-5

Sweet Illusions is unusual. It can be used in two different ways. Students can read it as they read any narrative, or they can help to create the story. Walter Dean Myers, the well-known author of many young adult novels, presents a story of young people facing the problem of teenage pregnancy. As an additional twist, the reader is given a writing idea for extending each chapter.

ISBN 0-915924-15-3

Popular fiction can play an instrumental role in the classroom. This fascinating guide provides ways to help K-12 students write using the popular literature they know and love.
“A remarkable book…consistently intelligent, truly interesting…. Even a beginning teacher will be able to use the genre approach with this book.”—Language Arts

ISBN 0-915924-04-8