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The Art of Teaching Writing by Lucy Calkins
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The Art of Teaching Writing (edition 1994)

by Lucy Calkins

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The Art of Teaching Writing, New Edition, has major new chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing throughout the day, reading/writing relationships, publication, curriculum development, nonfiction writing and home/school connections. Annotation. When Lucy Calkins wrote the first edition of The Art of Teaching Writing, the writing workshop was a fledgling idea, piloted by a few brave innovators. Now, as she brings us this new edition, the writing workshop is at the foundation of language arts education throughout the English-speaking world. This new edition, then, could easily have been a restatement, in grander, more confident tones, of the original classic. Instead, it is an almost entirely new book. Clearly, during the time in which Calkins' original ideas have spread like wildlife, her focus has not been on articulating and defending those ideas, but on developing and rethinking them. Respecting and responding to the questions that have arisen as thousands of teachers establish writing workshops in their classrooms, and drawing upon the latest knowledge in the field and her own intimate understanding of classroom life, Calkins has re-thought every line and every facet of her original text. In this new edition, Lucy has major new chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing throughout the day, reading-writing relationships, publication, curriculum development, non-fiction writing and home/school connections.… (more)
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Title:The Art of Teaching Writing
Authors:Lucy Calkins
Info:Heinemann (1994), Hardcover, 576 pages
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Calkins describes the model of teaching writing through a writer's workshop. This is, perhaps not surprisingly, one of the most well-written books on teaching that I've read. It is full of examples and very inspiring as an ideal, although I always had a hard time putting it into practice, even with all the concrete suggestions. ( )
  jgdinlibrary | Oct 31, 2016 |
This tells you how to help the students internalize their thought and the process of writing. Many strategies and activities are given to help you model writing, editing and publishing. I really like the idea of a writing workshop where you teach a skill and let them use it for a while. Since they are writing independently, you have time to meet with them all individually. Meeting with every student will help you to guide them and conferencing will help them to see their successes and what they need to work on. This way of teaching writing was very different than when I was in school. ( )
  RhondaMarie | Apr 28, 2011 |
A linchpin of progressive and holistic language arts instruction. More useful to primary-grade teachers than Atwell's In the Middle, which is the more student-centered of the two, but which focuses on adolescent children. ( )
  goodnightmoon | Aug 3, 2006 |
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The Art of Teaching Writing, New Edition, has major new chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing throughout the day, reading/writing relationships, publication, curriculum development, nonfiction writing and home/school connections. Annotation. When Lucy Calkins wrote the first edition of The Art of Teaching Writing, the writing workshop was a fledgling idea, piloted by a few brave innovators. Now, as she brings us this new edition, the writing workshop is at the foundation of language arts education throughout the English-speaking world. This new edition, then, could easily have been a restatement, in grander, more confident tones, of the original classic. Instead, it is an almost entirely new book. Clearly, during the time in which Calkins' original ideas have spread like wildlife, her focus has not been on articulating and defending those ideas, but on developing and rethinking them. Respecting and responding to the questions that have arisen as thousands of teachers establish writing workshops in their classrooms, and drawing upon the latest knowledge in the field and her own intimate understanding of classroom life, Calkins has re-thought every line and every facet of her original text. In this new edition, Lucy has major new chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing throughout the day, reading-writing relationships, publication, curriculum development, non-fiction writing and home/school connections.

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