Table of Contents
Contents:
I. The Essentials of Writing
1. Making Meaning on the Page and in Our Lives 2. Tap the Energy for Writing 3. Rehearsal: Living the Writerly Life 4. Drafting and Revision: Letting Our Worlds Instruct and Surprise Us
II. Let Children Show Us How to Teach
5. Lessons from Children 6. The Foundation of Literacy: Writing in the Home, the Nursery School, and the Kindergarten 7. Growing Up Writing: Grades K, l, and 2 8. In the Middle: Second and Third Grades 9. Grades Four-Six 10. Adolescence: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
III. Ongoing Structures in the Writing Workshop
11. Establish a Predictable Workshop Environment 12. Don't Be Afraid to Teach: Tools to Help Us Create Mini-Lessons 13. Conferring: Writing Becomes a Tool for Thought 14. Learning to Confer 15. Peer Conferring, Response Groups, Share Sessions 16. Writing Literature Under the Influence of Literature 17. Publication: The Beginning of the Writerly Life 18. Apprenticeships in the Writing Workshop: Learning from Authors 19. Editing: Learning the Conventions of Written Language 20. Assessment: A Minds-On Approach to Teaching
IV. The Changing Curriculum in a Writing Workshop
21. A Curriculum Within the Writing Workshop 22. Genre Studies 23. Poetry: It Begins in Delight and Ends in Wisdom 24. Making Memoir out of the Pieces of Our Lives 25. Literary Nonfiction 26. Thematic Studies: Reading the World, Reading the Word
V. Writing Workshop Teaching in a Larger Context
27. Writing to Learn Throughout the Day 28. Workshop Teaching Throughout the Day 29. The Home/School Connection: Composing Literate Lives in Homes and Neighborhoods 30. Teaching Matters
