Sandy Asher
Teacher Resource File

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Biography

Sandy Asher's Web Page
Write from the Heart: Finding Our Own Best Stories
Article by Sandy Asher,
in ALAN Review, v28, n1, Fall 2000
USM de Grummond Collection. Sandy Asher Papers
Includes biography
Life, Live Theater, and the Lively Classroom
Article by Sandy Asher in ALAN Review, Spring 1994

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Lesson Plans

"Perfect"
Adapted for the stage from Out of Here: A Senior Class Yearbook;
script by Sandy Asher
The Writing Craft - The Plot Thickens
Articles on writing plot by Sandy Asher
Reading and Writing about Boxing
More writing tips from Asher; site has "pop-ups"
A Very American Journey: The Lives and Accomplishments of Six Notable American Women
By Carol L. Penney; drama, English, Poetry, and History, grades 6-9.
[Sojourner Truth]; from Yale New Haven Lesson Plans; A Woman
Called Truth
Sojourner Truth Biography
Biographical timeline, plus elementary lesson plan; from the
Sojourner Truth Institute

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Bibliography

ISLMC Sandy Asher Bibliography

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ERIC Resources

For abstracts, search AskERIC directly.

"On Writing for Monkeys, Martians, and Children"

By Sandy Asher in Journal of Reading, May, 1984.
"Perfect"
By Sandy Asher in ALAN Review Spring, 1995
"Life, Live Theater, and the Lively Classroom"
By Sandy Asher in ALAN Review Spring, 1994
"Last Chance Language Arts: A Short Story"
By Sandy Asher in ALAN Review Fall, 1993
"Best Friends: Talking with Young Readers through My Books"
By Sandy Asher in ALAN Review Fall, 1989.

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