Of Primary Importance: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers / Edition 1

by Ann M. Corgill

Overview

From the first chapter of Ann Marie Corgill's Of Primary Importance: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers, you experience the swirling energy, the sights, and the sounds of a primary classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571103741
Publisher:	Stenhouse Publishers
Publication date:	10/27/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.63(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

The 2007 recipient of the NCTE Donald H. Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing, Ann Marie Corgill teaches first grade at Riverchase Elementary School in Hoover, Alabama. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, and for the past fifteen years has taught and learned with first through fourth graders at the Manhattan New School in New York City, as well as schools in Birmingham, Alabama, and Bronxville, New York. She has coauthored articles for NCTE’s journal, Primary Voices, and has been a teacher contributor for Time For Kids. Ann Marie presents at both national and local conferences on writing instruction in the primary grades.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers?; Chapter 2: Writers Will Live Up to What You Expect of Them; Chapter 3: Designing the Learning Landscape; Chapter 4: Planning Instruction for the Writing Journey; Chapter 5: Establishing the Writing Community; Chapter 6: From Ordinary to Extraordinary; Chapter 7: Inquiring Minds Want to Know; Chapter 8: Picture This; Chapter 9: Publishing Possibilities; Chapter 10: Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"A piece of work that will have a tremendous impact on the field of literacy education" - Education Review

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