Who Gets to Write Fiction?: Opening Doors to Imaginative Writing for All Students [Paperback]

Writing and sharing fiction allows adolescents to glimpse other lives This book has profound implications for teaching. Ariel Sacks shows us how to humanize this test-driven profession with courage, wisdom, and the gorgeous, clear writing of an accomplished storyteller. It is not just the progression of assignments from most accessible to most complex, but the articulate defense of imaginative work that is inspiring, rigorous, and necessary for the overall well-being of us all. You simply must study this book with your colleagues. Ariel Sacks provides a comprehensive playbook for English Language Arts teachers on why and how to engage students in fiction writing. The book shares stories and practical tips for making imaginative writing accessible for all students, using a framework that promotes equity and literacy. I highly recommend it for any teacher of writing. Ariel Sacks is one of the more thoughtful and expansive thinkers around literacy that Ive come across over the course of my career. From the outset of As someone who has taught fiction writing This is a book I wish my own teachers had had! Ariel Sacks empowers literacy educators to give serious space to imaginative writing in a way that awakens? academic and socialemotional learning. With concrete examples, Sacks also shows how this work can shift power dynamics between and among teachers and students. I suspect? Ariel Sacks presents a rationale and road map for expanding the place for imaginative writing within the English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum. In doing so, Sacks leverages fiction writing as a powerful hook for student engagement with literary craft, centering it as a tool for expression and analysis, a vehicle for learning, and a reflection of learning....offers both big picture thinking and practical application... As a whole,US