I also have some other favorite fun and humor-inducing authors whose books I bring out to inspire funnier thinking from my students. It's pretty cool to know and work with real authors sometimes. The book's author gave that original piece of cover art to me as a gift after he and I did some work together a few years back. If you come into my room and look at the bookshelf closest to my desk in my classroom, you'll see an 8" x 11" framed version of this small illustration from the cover. Hey, my students, if you look closely at the cover of the Wacky We-Search book pictured at left (click here for a close-up version of the book's cover), in the bottom center you'll see a picture of a dolphin in a suit who is serving as a newscaster. The math, science, and social studies teachers whom I team with all use this book for writing across the curriculum tasks, and I believe I can safely say that our students do more writing in all of their classes than all of the other teams at our middle school. Students honestly do have fun when they write using the unique formats suggested by Barry in this invaluable collection of lesson ideas. It's the best for-under-twenty-dollar book that I have on my bookshelf. Teachers, if you don't have your own copy of this book and you teach 4th-12th grade, change that fact. One of my favorite cures to bringing more "fun" to my classroom is Barry's brilliant little book, 51 Wacky We-Search Reports: Face the Facts with Fun. When Barry presents workshops, he often says, "There's not enough fun in education anymore," and I agree. Great Writer's Notebooks Allow for Students' Individual Senses of Humor to Shine! I've always loved the teacher-books written by my author-friend, Barry Lane.
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