Author archive: Tina
The Four
Firstly, I am so sorry for the terribly long radio silence. It has been a busy month and a half with Nanowrimo (I didn’t finish), the holidays (they are finished), and finalizing the classes for Inkreadable Kids (hopefully, they will never finish). It is the 23rd of January and it’s here! That’s right, I have…
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Last Friday was more of a tutoring session than a class as I only have one student. She is nine, and as precocious as you can imagine. I taught her the same material as the two older kids the day before. She also was quick on the draw and understood the concepts for starting a…
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As you all know, last Thursday marked the beginning of the Inkreadable Kids writing workshops. I had two students for that particular session. I happened to have come down the stairs from my classroom and met them in the lobby. I was expecting three students for that time slot, but alas, it was not to…
DetailsArticles and Spaces
Don’t worry this is not going to be a lesson on grammar. After all, if you are reading this you’ve probably been done with school for a long while and have had all the grammar you can stomach. So my last post made it seem like things were very dire indeed. In fact, that was…
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Although this will be a shorter post, I wanted to deliver on my promise of Tuesday, which was to regale you with Friday’s high jinks. Rising action may have gotten a reality check from my Friday student. Remember last week’s “Stuck”? Well, it was a fluke apparently. This nine year old thinks faster than she…
DetailsBossy By Nature and Other News
Last week, was a week like any other at Inkreadable. By which I mean that I not only taught, but learned as well. I am sorry for the long radio silence, I’ve been a bit busy. Last Thursday, 27 March, marked the second to last of my classes. In my second penultimate position, I found…
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Last week was a bit of a struggle. In the first place, I have to come to terms with the fact that kids don’t work at the same speed. While the 11 year old may have a 6 or seven page story, the 8 or 9 year old may only have a two or three…
DetailsPurple Panic
The boys of Friday, like the boys of summer are turning into a fun bunch. I don’t have kids, myself so I am being surprised all the time. This past Friday, the boys walked into my class, and I asked them, as I always do, if they had written. From two of the boys, I…
DetailsSo Much Fun
I am amazed at how much I am learning by teaching these classes. In my second Scene Stealers class, writing a scene for a two and a half year time period that the original author doesn’t deal with is proving a challenge. For both student and teacher. For my student, it isn’t a matter of…
DetailsBring on the Boys...
This session of Inkreadable Kids promises to be very interesting indeed. I have six students, four boys and two of my returning girls from last session. I am offering two different classes this time around. The four boys are taking my short story module, and so is my nine year old girl. The other girl…
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