I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island.
I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010).
I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.
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BTW – I have just spend about a half and hour playing around with the Waterlogue app! So cool – thanks for sharing it! I don’t like posting my girls pictures online and this makes it possible in such a cool way!
I love this poem. It brought me back to the times when my kids would let me push them on the swings. Now they just want to do it by themselves, but the sound of giggles are the best on a nice spring day!
I love the poem. Swings in the park (and the Little Tykes swing we had on the porch at home are some of my sweetest memories of my little girl-now big girl of 21, coming home for spring break today!! I wrote about my daughter and our song for the swings here: https://newtreemom.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/swing-set-memories-slice-18/
I forget about the Waterlogue app, now I will have to use it sometime this month (thanks for the nudge in that direction). Acrostic is another thing I don’t think of right away, but I love the challenge of creating with them (another nudge). Love the sounds of the giggles of fun.
I love how the first and last lines repeat. The first shows great motion; the last brings it to a close. This is something I am learning in my own writing: when to use the “-ing” and when to make my writing less “-ing.” Thanks for showing me new possibilities.
Raising Literate Humans 
I can hear the giggles! Love the repetition in the poem too. The watercolor picture is awesome! I’m going to have to try that!
BTW – I have just spend about a half and hour playing around with the Waterlogue app! So cool – thanks for sharing it! I don’t like posting my girls pictures online and this makes it possible in such a cool way!
*spent 🙂 It’s late …
It is a safer way to share pics of our girls. Enjoy it!
Oh I love the swings and the poem and the giggles!!! There is NOTHING better than that! I’ll have to check out that Waterlogue app! Thanks!
I love this poem. It brought me back to the times when my kids would let me push them on the swings. Now they just want to do it by themselves, but the sound of giggles are the best on a nice spring day!
Swinging, air, and giggles, nothing better. Happy Friday!
I love the poem. Swings in the park (and the Little Tykes swing we had on the porch at home are some of my sweetest memories of my little girl-now big girl of 21, coming home for spring break today!! I wrote about my daughter and our song for the swings here:
https://newtreemom.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/swing-set-memories-slice-18/
I forget about the Waterlogue app, now I will have to use it sometime this month (thanks for the nudge in that direction). Acrostic is another thing I don’t think of right away, but I love the challenge of creating with them (another nudge). Love the sounds of the giggles of fun.
There is just a sense of freedom when you are flying on a swing.
Love how you express so much with so few words!
I love how the first and last lines repeat. The first shows great motion; the last brings it to a close. This is something I am learning in my own writing: when to use the “-ing” and when to make my writing less “-ing.” Thanks for showing me new possibilities.
I’ve never heard of the Waterlogue app. I don’t have a camera, or I’d definitely try it out!