Lessons from a Child: On the Teaching and Learning of Writing, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (July 11, 1983) © 1983

  • Lucy Calkins

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ISBN-13: 9780435082062
Lessons from a Child: On the Teaching and Learning of Writing
Published 1983

Title overview

A story of one child's growth in writing, Lessons from a Child explains how teachers can work with children, helping them to teach themselves and each other. Matters of classroom management, methods for helping children to use the peer conference, and ways mini-lessons can extend children's understanding of good writing are all covered here. Most important, the sequences of writing development and growth are thoroughly discussed.

Table of contents

  • I A writing workshop begins
  • 1. A research project, a classroom, a child
  • 2. Re-Vision
  • 3. A partnership forms
  • 4. Topics which tap the energy to write
  • 5. The structure of a writing workshop
  • 6. Editing: last but not least
  • 7. The teacher's role
  • II One child's growth in writing
  • 8. First lessons
  • 9. Revision?
  • 10. From writer to reader: Susie develops an executive function
  • 11. Sequences in Susie's writing development
  • 12. The life-story of one text
  • 13. Between the lines: Susie's process becomes internalized
  • 14.Longer stories and bigger revisions
  • III The writing classroom: a context for growth
  • 15. When teachers collaborate: new ideas
  • 16. Twenty six teachers in this classroom
  • 17. Peer conferences thread through the writing process
  • 18. Teaching children to teach each ohter
  • 19. Teaching by example
  • 20. When children conference with themselves
  • 21. Concept development
  • 22. Reading-writing connections
  • 23. Reading, writing and a glacier report
  • 24. Lessons from children

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