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Most teachers only get a year with their kids in a classroom. I always encourage parents to take the long-range view of literacy, the understanding that literacy is something that develops over the course of a lifetime, not overthe course of a school year.
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So much of the work is just laying brick. Lists of ideas. Abandoned drafts. Troubleshooting. Nothing glamorous or gilded about it. This is the stage I'm in with this website: laying brick. I have visions of gilt and grandeur, but it will take some time to build it.
English has a robust collection of words for writing. All of them have a bloodline that reveals both the physical and psychic work of writing.