The Art of Teaching Writing
Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University
ISBN 978-0-435-08809-5 / 0-435-08809-2 / 1994 / 576pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann
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Grade Level: K-5
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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." An outstanding publication on the latest developments in writing instruction.
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Contents: I. The Essentials of Writing II. Let Children Show Us How to Teach III. Ongoing Structures in the Writing Workshop
IV. The Changing Curriculum in a Writing Workshop
V. Writing Workshop Teaching in a Larger Context
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
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 FourÐSix 10. Adolescence:
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
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
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
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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