The Art of Teaching Writing
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's original ideas have spread like wildfire, her focus has not been on articulating and defending those ideas, but on developing and rethinking them. Respecting and responding to the questions which 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, nonfiction writing and home/school connections. More than this, she has deepened her understanding of the writing process itself:

"When I wrote the first edition, I saw writing as a process of choosing a topic, turning the topic into the best possible draft, sharing the draft with friends, then revising it. But I've come to think that it's very important that writing is a process not only of recording, but also of developing a story or an idea. Now, in this new edition, I describe writing episodes that do not begin with a topic and a draft but instead with something noticed or something wondered about. When writing begins with something that has not yet found its significance, it is more apt to become a process of growing meaning."

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The Art of Teaching Writing
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's original ideas have spread like wildfire, her focus has not been on articulating and defending those ideas, but on developing and rethinking them. Respecting and responding to the questions which 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, nonfiction writing and home/school connections. More than this, she has deepened her understanding of the writing process itself:

"When I wrote the first edition, I saw writing as a process of choosing a topic, turning the topic into the best possible draft, sharing the draft with friends, then revising it. But I've come to think that it's very important that writing is a process not only of recording, but also of developing a story or an idea. Now, in this new edition, I describe writing episodes that do not begin with a topic and a draft but instead with something noticed or something wondered about. When writing begins with something that has not yet found its significance, it is more apt to become a process of growing meaning."

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The Art of Teaching Writing

The Art of Teaching Writing

by Lucy Calkins
The Art of Teaching Writing

The Art of Teaching Writing

by Lucy Calkins

Overview

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's original ideas have spread like wildfire, her focus has not been on articulating and defending those ideas, but on developing and rethinking them. Respecting and responding to the questions which 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, nonfiction writing and home/school connections. More than this, she has deepened her understanding of the writing process itself:

"When I wrote the first edition, I saw writing as a process of choosing a topic, turning the topic into the best possible draft, sharing the draft with friends, then revising it. But I've come to think that it's very important that writing is a process not only of recording, but also of developing a story or an idea. Now, in this new edition, I describe writing episodes that do not begin with a topic and a draft but instead with something noticed or something wondered about. When writing begins with something that has not yet found its significance, it is more apt to become a process of growing meaning."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780435088095
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 03/07/1994
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 576
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.23(d)
Age Range: 5 - 10 Years

About the Author

Lucy Calkins is the Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. For more than thirty years, she has led the Project in its dual functions as a think tank, developing state-of-the-art teaching methods, and a provider of professional development, supporting hundreds of thousands of teachers, principals, superintendents, and policy-makers across the country and around the world. Lucy is the author or coauthor - and series editor - of the reading, writing, and phonics Units of Study series, which are integral to classroom life in tens of thousands of schools around the world. In addition, she has authored scores of professional books and articles. Lucy is also the Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she co-directs the Literacy Specialist Program. Her latest professional books include Teaching Writing and Leading Well. Visit UnitsofStudy.com Order Resources by Lucy Calkins

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

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