Authors: Katie Wood Ray, Lisa Cleaveland
ISBN-13: 9780325005119, ISBN-10: 0325005117
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Between her passion for elementary writing instruction and a love of children's literature, Katie Wood Ray found herself asking, "What if children were introduced to key qualities of good writing in the context of illustrations?" This question led to the research behind In Pictures and In Words. The answer was simple yet powerful: "The thinking students do while reading picture books can help them see the connection between what words and illustrations do to make meaning." As an author of bestselling Heinemann books such as Already Ready, Study Driven, About the Authors, and What You Know By Heart and as a member of Heinemann Professional Development Services, Katie has always given teachers resources and PD that transform writing instruction and help children discover a lifelong love of writing. A former Associate Professor at Western Carolina University Katie is now a full time writer and researcher of the teaching of writing. With a particular focus on the study of writing craft, she leads teacher workshops and summer institutes across the nation related to the teaching of writing. Her professional background includes both elementary and middle school teaching experience and two years as a staff developer at The Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University. She was also the coeditor of the journal Primary Voices K-6, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. Katie is also the author or coauthor of Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in the Whole Language Classrooms (1996, NCTE), Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom (1999, NCTE), and The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And Theyre All Hard Parts) (2001, NCTE). A frequent speaker at conferences and summer institutes around the country, Katie also has extensive experience teaching teachers in workshop and demonstration settings. Katie Wood Ray is a Heinemann Professional Development presenter. EC0410
The 2002 recipient of the prestigious NCTE/Donald H. Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing, Lisa B. Cleaveland is a first-grade teacher at Jonathan Valley Elementary School in Waynesville, North Carolina, where she conducts a writing workshop every morning at 9:00 am sharp.
About the Authors is about the littlest authors - those in kindergarten through second grade. Based on a profound understanding of the ways in which young children learn, it shows teachers how to launch a writing workshop by inviting children to do what they do naturally - make stuff. So why not write books?
Gifted educator and author of the best-selling What You Know by Heart (Heinemann, 2002), Katie Wood Ray has seen young authors do just that. And she wants your students to be able to do the same. Beautifully describing young children in the act of learning, she demonstrates what it takes to nourish writing right from the start:
Chockfull of examples of little books by young children, About the Authors is proof positive that a primary writing workshop is a smart writing move.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Sect. 1 | Building a strong foundation | |
Ch. 1 | Writing workshop : a happy place where we make stuff | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Work, space, and time : writing workshop right from the start | 23 |
Ch. 3 | Wrapping strong arms around the writing workshop : children learning about language all day long | 38 |
Ch. 4 | How our youngest writers use the writing process to help them make books | 58 |
Sect. 2 | Understanding the teaching | |
Ch. 5 | Looking closely at minilessons : whole-class teaching that fills the workshop with possibilities | 82 |
Ch. 6 | Organizing for thoughtful instruction with units of study | 102 |
Ch. 7 | Assessment : learning all we can about the authors | 119 |
Ch. 8 | Teaching into and out of the work of individual children : writing conferences and share times | 139 |
Sect. 3 | An overview of units of study | |
Unit of study A | The kinds of things writers make and how we'll make them in this room | 155 |
Unit of study B | Where writers get ideas | 159 |
Unit of study C | How to read like writers | 165 |
Unit of study D | Finding writing mentors | 172 |
Unit of study E | How to structure texts in interesting ways | 177 |
Unit of study F | How to make illustrations work better with written text | 183 |
Unit of study G | How to have better peer conferences | 188 |
Unit of study H | Literary nonfiction | 192 |
Unit of study I | How to use punctuation in interesting ways | 205 |
Unit of study J | Poetry | 214 |
Unit of study K | Revision | 221 |
Closing thoughts | 233 | |
Works cited | 235 | |
Index | 237 |