The winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for almost 30 years. These days, she’s on the road consulting, having delivered hundreds of workshops. You can read more about the ideas presented in this blog post from her most recent Corwin Literacy book, Text Structures From Fairy Tales: Truisms That Help Students Write About Abstract Concepts…and Live Happily Ever After, co-authored with Judi Reimer.