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Leigh Anne Eck
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Hello! Teach Write is finally joining the Blue Sky community. Please follow if you are a teacher who enjoys writing or teaches writing and would like to hear about our regular sharing of resources, challenges, and workshops!
#teachersky #writingcommunity #elateachers #timetowrite
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January 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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kaaauthor.bsky.social
So happy to see my good friend and occasional co-author @choldenko.bsky.social on this list of School Library Journal's best #mglit of 2024. 💙

Plus @mrschureads.bsky.social, #JasmineWarga, and many more wonderful authors!
Best Middle Grade Books 2024 | SLJ Best Books
Gripping fantastical journeys, family secrets, unbridled joy, and inconceivable loss: in these pages, tweens are facing it all. These 26 middle grade titles are exemplars across genre of the power of…
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December 27, 2024 at 7:27 PM
leighanneeck.bsky.social
What a great collection of poetry. I have missed this!
heymrsbond.com Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · Dec 28
In the tradition that @jess5th.bsky.social started, I wanna share some poems for the new year. I’ll share ‘the one’ I plan to use to guide my 2025 soon. #PoetryPeople you all share too!

I often come back to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social’s How Dark the Beginning

Stunning, searing imagery.
Photo: screenshot of a poem from poetry foundation. How Dark the Beginning Launch Audio in a New Window BY MAGGIE SMITH All we ever talk of is light— let there be light, there was light then, good light—but what I consider dawn is darker than all that. So many hours between the day receding and what we recognize as morning, the sun cresting like a wave that won’t break over us—as if  light were protective, as if  no hearts were flayed, no bodies broken on a day like today. In any film, the sunrise tells us everything will be all right. Danger wouldn’t dare show up now, dragging its shadow across the screen. We talk so much of  light, please let me speak on behalf of  the good dark. Let us talk more of how dark the beginning of a day is.
December 28, 2024 at 8:27 PM
leighanneeck.bsky.social
It has been a dismal reading year for me, but I have learned a few things. I am sharing those lessons and my favorite books of 2024. adayinthelifeof19b.blogspot.com/2024/12/my-2...
My 2024 Reading Wrap-Up
The year is days from ending, and people are beginning to talk, write, and post about reading challenges from the past year and the upcoming...
adayinthelifeof19b.blogspot.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:10 PM
leighanneeck.bsky.social
Today we played a Christmas trivia Kahoot. We had a question about filling wooden shoes. I heard a student say, “I know that! I read a book in elementary school.”
Another question about where poinsettias come from. I hear the same thing. They remember reading a book! Background knowledge matters!
December 20, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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A gift basket of writing advice—and it arrives on time for any holiday you celebrate (or not)—from MG and picture book authors! www.writersdigest.com/write-better...
One Piece of Advice From 27 Middle Grade and Picture Book Authors in 2024
Collected here is one piece of advice for writers from 27 different middle grade and picture book authors featured in our author spotlight series in 2024, including Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Ernest Cline, Dan Gutman, Arihhonni David, Alina Tysoe, and more.
www.writersdigest.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM