Hello!
As a former teacher (31 years!) I love to connect with students and educators, and spend a lot of time doing just that via classroom visits and teachers’ conventions, as well as through this website. Below you will find a number of free downloads you can use in your classroom. If you have any questions about any of the resources, or would like to know more about writing workshops (for students or teachers), author visits or literacy presentations, just contact me below.
There are also resources for your students on the Cool Stuff page, including writing tips (“Writing With Robin”) and short stories. Of course, as a teacher you can also access this material and build reading or writing lessons around it.
Free Downloads
How to Get Your Students Writing
Teachers’ Convention Presentation
Writing 101
Teachers’ Convention Presentation
Plot Structure Graphic
Shows and describes the basic parts of a story.
Creating Characters
2 lists that your students can use to help them create unique, interesting characters (see “Writing With Robin” #4)
3 Simple Tricks That Make Editing Fun & Easy (& Other Lies)
Teachers’ Convention Presentation
What Could Go Wrong?
Teachers’ Convention Presentation
What Could Go Wrong?
This writing unit will help students generate and develop story ideas in a way that will aid their understanding of basic story structure.
Content-Area Writing: Writing to Learn; Learning to Write
Teachers’ Convention Presentation
From Stuck to Story
Teachers’ Convention Presentation
Story Organizer
For use with “What Could Go Wrong?” writing unit
Box Story
A blank template along with instructions showing how to complete each box
Writing With Robin
Ideas and Tips for Young Writers
Writing With Robin, #1: How I Got the Idea for “The Three Little Pigs”
I often had my students create stories based on three random objects. In this case, I asked my class to give me: a type of animal (They came up with a bunch. I thought an alligator would be interesting, so I went with that.) a setting (any interesting...