WRITING AND BOOK-MAKING WITH THIRD-GRADERS: COMFORTABLE QUILTS
TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING By Kevin Baxter Third-grade teacher Kevin Baxter’s students turned their stories into books and their collective work into a classroom quilt. Words are like harpoons. Once they go in they are very hard to pull out. —Fred Hoyle Asheville, North Carolina As Hannah sits with her legs folded beneath her, she hunches…