Lessons from a Child

by Calkins, Lucy McCormick

• ISBN13: 9780435082062
• ISBN10: 043508206X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-07-11
• Publisher: HEINEMAN

Summary

A story of one child's growth in writing, Lessons from a Child explains how teachers can work with children, helping them to teach themselves and each other. Matters of classroom management, methods for helping children to use the peer conference, and ways mini-lessons can extend children's understanding of good writing are all covered here. Most important, the sequences of writing development and growth are thoroughly discussed.

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

Acknowledgements	v
I A writing workshop begins	3	(40)
1. A research project, a classroom, a child	3	(6)
2. Re-Vision	9	(11)
3. A partnership forms	20	(4)
4. Topics which tap the energy to write	24	(6)
5. The structure of a writing workshop	30	(3)
6. Editing: last but not least	33	(4)
7. The teacher's role	37	(6)
II One child's growth in writing	43	(62)
8. First lessons	43	(6)
9. Revision?	49	(6)
10. From writer to reader: Susie develops an executive function	55	(7)
11. Sequences in Susie's writing development	62	(6)
12. The life-story of one text	68	(8)
13. Between the lines: Susie's process becomes internalized	76	(13)
14. Longer stories and bigger revisions	89	(16)
III The writing classroom: a context for growth	105	(72)
15. When teachers collaborate: new ideas	105	(9)
16. Twenty six teachers in this classroom	114	(3)
17. Peer conferences thread through the writing process	117	(8)
18. Teaching children to teach each other	125	(6)
19. Teaching by example	131	(7)
20. When children conference with themselves	138	(4)
21. Concept development	142	(10)
22. Reading-writing connections	152	(8)
23. Reading, writing and a glacier report	160	(12)
24. Lessons from children	172	(5)
Bibliography	177	(2)
Index	179