The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

Ray, Katie Wood; Laminack, Lester

ISBN 10: 0814113176 / ISBN 13: 9780814113172

Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2001

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0814113176-4-29505114

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)
• Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0814113176
• ISBN-13: 9780814113172
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Fair
• Gewicht: 21 Unzen

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Inhaltsangabe

This seminal book is a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on. In The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray offers a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers really do is engage in a complex, multi-layered, slippery process to produce texts. The book confronts the challenge of this teaching head-on, with chapters on all aspects of the writing workshop, including: day-to-day instruction (e.g., lesson planning, conferring, assessment and evaluation, share time, focus lessons, and independent writing); classroom management (e.g., pacing and scheduling, managing the predictable distractions, and understanding the slightly out-of-hand feeling of the workshop); and intangibles (e.g., the development of writing identities and the tone of workshop teaching). The Writing Workshop is a book about being articulate-being able to think through what we are doing as we are doing it so that we can improve our practice. It's a book to go back to when things are getting hard. A book that helps us think through, "Now why was I doing this?" Woven between the chapters on teaching are the voices of published writers, followed by short commentaries from Lester L. Laminack. These voices remind us how writers do what they do, thus lending authenticity to what Katie Wood Ray shows us in the classroom, and thoughtfully helping us frame our instruction to match the complex process of writing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Katie Wood Ray teaches courses in language arts education at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. She is the author of Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom and the co-author (with Lester L. Laminack) of Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in Whole Language Classrooms, both NCTE publications. She has taught by herself and alongside other teachers, and her experiences in writing workshops have taken her from middle school classrooms in South Carolina, to K-5 classrooms in the New York City Public Schools, to K-8 classrooms in the rural mountains of western North Carolina. In every teaching setting, she has encountered the "hard parts" in many forms, but she has also found the joy that comes from working through them and helping students find the power of writing in their lives.