November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). My kids LOVE this month. We set aside our regularly-scheduled language arts curriculum and we just have at it, writing as many words as we can every day. At the end of the month they have a short novel to show for...
New parents are always getting advice. Some unwanted. Some ineffective. Some so spot-on you’ve got to pay it forward. I don’t remember where I heard it first, but early on, I picked up the idea to read to my kids. But not just read to them until they can read for...
NOTE: For an updated list on the teasers/videos/behind-the-scenes info click here: Disney’s Live action Cinderella Disney is teasing us with bits and pieces of the new Cinderella movie scheduled to release March 13, 2015. Lily James is adorable, but her pretty...
I’m working my way through my teaching philosophy regarding reading and writing. Last blog I covered some of the ways we introduced our kids to books from the time they were babies, up through preschool. The most radical method involved severely limiting electronics...
Developing the Reader/Writer Series (Part 2) While some couples can’t wait to take their kids camping or surfing or to soccer games, my husband and I pictured vacations filled with bags of books being trotted out poolside followed by hours of sustained silent reading....
SHONNA SLAYTON is the author of the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series of young adult novels, beginning with Cinderella’s Dress. She edited curriculum for an education company before homeschooling her own children using literature-based whole book learning. She’s taught writing using fairy tales in school classrooms and workshops, as well as in public libraries as a writer in residence. Instead of seeing her in person, you can get the Lessons from GrimmSeries which includes a writer’s guide and workbooks for writers to learn fiction techniques through fairy tales.
What I'm working on now:
New Grimm fairy tale retelling for Newsletter Subscribers
