Lessons from a Child / Edition 1

by Lucy Calkins

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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780435082062
Publisher:	Heinemann
Publication date:	07/11/1983
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.43(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 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