The Thousand Words Project was an exciting lesson in my classroom; students were engaged and were able to see a new way of approaching writing. Students who are visual learners got a chance to ...

The verb is the engine that drives the sentence. In "The tracks made a line in the snow," the engine lacks horsepower. In "The tracks cut a line in the snow," the engine has thrust. To make your ...

Driving to work Tuesday, I heard a four-minute NPR report on the massive tornado destruction in Oklahoma. So vivid was the account — and so visual the writing — that I pulled over to write down the ...