Portrait: Jessica Smith shares stories to bond with students and to help them generate story ideas (

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When a writing assignment stumps Jessica Smith's students, she sometimes shares a cycling story with them. She hopes the story triggers a memory in her students that they will want to relate on paper. Her plan usually works.

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