The Art of Teaching Writing

by Calkins, Lucy McCormick

• ISBN13: 9780435088170
• ISBN10: 0435088173
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-04
• Publisher: HEINEMAN

Summary

Cloth Edition. 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.

Author Biography

LUCY CALKINS is founding director of the Teachers College Writing Project, a coalition of teachers, teacher-administrators, professors and writers, which provides professional sustenance and hope--roots and wings--to literacy educators across the country. Her celebrated Heinemann publications include: Lessons From a Child (1983),Living Between the Lines (with Shelley Harwayne, 1990), and The Art of Teaching Writing (1986,1994). Ms. Calkins has also developed The Writing Workshop videotape (produced by Shelley Harwayne and Alex Mitchell) and has written The Writing Workshop (with Shelley Harwayne, 1987) to accompany the videotape. Lucy Calkins is an active participant in Heinemann's Professional Development Services through Heinemann Workshops.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
SECTION I THE ESSENTIALS OF WRITING
Making Meaning on the Page and in Our Lives	3	(8)
Tap the Energy for Writing	11	(10)
Rehearsal: Living the Writerly Life	21	(18)
Drafting and Revision: Letting Our Words Instruct and Surprise Us	39	(14)
SECTION II LET CHILDREN SHOW US HOW TO TEACH
Lessons from Children	53	(6)
The Foundations of Literacy: Writing in the Home, the Nursery School, and the Kindergarten	59	(24)
Growing Up Writing: Grades K, 1, and 2	83	(26)
In Between: Grades 2 and 3	109	(30)
Developing Learning Communities in the Upper Elementary Grades	139	(18)
Teaching Adolescents: Improvisation and Commitment	157	(26)
SECTION III ONGOING STRUCTURES IN THE WRITING WORKSHOP
Establish a Predictable Workshop Environment	183	(10)
Don't & Afraid to Teach: Tools to Help Us Create Mini-Lessons	193	(28)
Conferring: Writing &comes a Tool for Thought	221	(10)
Learning to Confer	231	(18)
Writing Literature Under the Influence of Literature	249	(12)
Publication: The &ginning of the Writerly Life	261	(12)
Apprenticeships in the Writing Workshop: Learning from Authors	273	(14)
Editing: Learning the Conventions of Written Language	287	(24)
Assessment: A Minds-On Approach to Teaching	311	(26)
Workshop Teaching Throughout the Day	337	(12)
SECTION IV THE CHANGING CURRICULUM IN THE WRITING WORKSHOP
Developing a Curriculum for the Writing Workshop	349	(8)
Genre Studies	357	(12)
Poetry: It Begins in Delight and Ends in Wisdom	369	(30)
Making Memoir Out of the Pieces of Our Lives	399	(32)
Literary Nonfiction	431	(22)
Theme Studies: Reading the World, Reading the Word	453	(30)
SECTION V WRITING WORKSHOP TEACHING IN A LARGER CONTEXT
Writing to Learn Throughout the Day	483	(18)
The Home-School Connection: Composing Literate Lives in Homes and Neighborhoods	501	(12)
Do I Dare to Care So Much?	513	(6)
Reader's Guide	519	(4)
Annotated Bibliography	523	(18)
Works Cited	541	(8)
Credits	549