Writing Like Writers: Guiding Elementary Children Through a Writer's Workshop

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Build a classroom of excited, talented young writers. This wonderful teaching resource offers a complete approach to creating a classroom of enthusiastic, skillful student writers.

The authors provide a comprehensive approach to teaching writing in the classroom. This book offers the strategies teachers need to teach writing skills that meet national standards and to produce excellent results from children.

Topics addressed in this guidebook include:

• creating the writing classroom,
• teaching the writing process,
• teaching effective writing strategies,
• teaching elements of story structure,
• teaching the advanced craft of writing, and
• using a writer's workshop to teach good writing.

Writing is a great differentiator. During the writer's workshop, each student is engaged in meaningful ways. Pulling together more than three decades of practical experience and research on the best strategies for teaching writing, Writing Like Writers offers a friendly, easy-to-use guide for any teacher seeking to build a classroom of successful writers.

Grades 2-6

Author Bio

Pamela V. Westkott has been teaching third grade most of her teaching career. She lives with her husband and teaches in a suburban Rhode Island seaside town. Her three grown sons live and work in the area. Westkott enjoys teaching, reading, gardening, hiking, and traveling.

Kathryn L. Johnson teaches in the School of Education at the University of Rhode Island. With a lifelong love of literature and language, Kay is a writer, a calligrapher, and a bookbinder of original, one-of-a-kind books. She lives in rural Rhode Island with her husband and two teenage sons. This is her fourth publication with Prufrock Press.