Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.

Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.

This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.

Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.