As well as intensive reading, other ways of stimulating the development of your work include poetry workshops, courses and writing groups.
In the Success for All formula, every child begins the day with a 90-minute session of intensive reading instruction.
Jason Manford, Brung Up Proper v Rob Brydon, Small Man In A Book A confession: before plunging into the last purgatorial week of intensive reading, I did not know who Jason Manford actually was.
He also worried about whether his quest to understand his gift was hampered because he wasn't able to compare notes with criminal pickpockets, and began his intensive reading in the literature of pickpocketry.
Her habit of intensive reading and study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated.
Last week, the Chicago Board of Education made some changes to its promotion policy, including the creation of an intensive reading program as well as a ban on holding back a student more than twice between kindergarten and the eighth grade.
The experts also pointed out that the Board of Education has directed schools to focus on teaching literacy skills in recent years, pouring enormous amounts of money into intensive reading programs in the early grades.
Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy said the improvement could be due to any number of things, from intensive reading and mathematics programs that these schools are required to use with all their students, to rapidly increasing numbers of certified teachers in those schools.
