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Overview

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780435082062
  • Publisher: Heinemann
  • Publication date: 7/11/1983
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 1,175,440
  • Age range: 13 years
  • Product dimensions: 5.94 (w) x 8.44 (h) x 0.44 (d)

Meet the Author

Lucy Calkins is the author of the popular firsthand classroom materials Units of Study for Primary Writing and Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3 - 5, as well as several companion resources for literacy coaches and principals. Most recently, Lucy has published a curriculum for the reading workshop, Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 3-5, and she has written the Common Core Reading & Writing Workshop series for Grades K - 8. In addition, Lucy is the author or coauthor of numerous foundational professional texts with Heinemann, including Pathways to the Common Core;The Art of Teaching Writing; and One to One. She is also the author of The Art of Teaching Reading. She is the Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University's Teachers College. For more than twenty-five years, the Project has been both a think tank - developing state of the art teaching methods - and a provider of professional development. In these capacities, the Project has supported hundreds of thousands of educators. As the leader of this world renowned organization, Lucy works closely with policy-makers, superintendents, district leaders and school principals to instigate and sustain school-wide and system-wide educational reforms. But above all, Lucy works closely with teachers and with their classrooms full of wise and wonderful children. Lucy is also the Richard Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, where she leads the Literacy Specialist program. Lucy and her husband John are the parents of two sons, Miles and Evan.
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Table of Contents

Contents

I A writing workshop begins

A research project, a classroom, a child

Re-Vision

A partnership forms

Topics which tap the energy to write

The structure of a writing workshop

6 . Editing: last but not least

The teacher's role

II One child's growth in writing

First lessons

Revision?

From writer to reader: Susie develops an executive function

Sequences in Susie's writing development

The life-story of one text

Between the lines: Susie's process becomes internalized

Longer stories and bigger revisions

III The writing classroom: a context for growth

When teachers collaborate: new ideas

Twenty six teachers in this classroom

Peer conferences thread through the writing process

Teaching children to teach each ohter

Teaching by example

When children conference with themselves

Concept development

Reading-writing connections

Reading, writing and a glacier report

Lessons from children

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