A Teacher's Guide to Getting Started with Beginning Writers (Classroom Essentials), 1st edition

Published by Pearson (October 11, 2018) © 2018

  • Katie Wood
  • Lisa Cleavelan

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ISBN-13: 9780325099149
A Teacher's Guide to Getting Started with Beginning Writers (Classroom Essentials)
Published 2018

Title overview

How can I help my youngest students become writers?

How can I establish a routine for writing in my classroom?

Why is making books developmentally appropriate?

In Lisa Cleaveland's classroom, writing workshop is a time every day when her students make books. Katie Wood Ray guides you through the first days in Lisa's classroom, offering ideas, information, strategies, and tips to show you step by step how you can launch primary writing workshop with beginning writers.

If you're a new teacher or new to writing workshop, A Teacher's Guide to Getting Started with Beginning Writers will show you in clear and simple terms what to do to establish a routine for writing in your classroom, offering you vision, insight, and practical support. If you're an experienced workshop teacher, Katie and Lisa will help you imagine new possibilities.

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About the series

The Classroom Essentials series was created to provide pre-service and veteran teachers with a fresh new look at foundational, student-centred practices. Each book in the series focuses on one essential practice, along with all the information you need to get started trying it - or refining it - in your own classroom right away. With highly visual designs, classroom videos, online resources, teacher tips and more, Classroom Essentials books offer a uniquely engaging and contemporary reading experience for today's busy teachers.

Table of contents

  • Welcome: A PLACE FOR CHILDREN TO MAKE BOOKS
  • Why Make Books?
  • What Writers Need to Get Started
  • Learning Through Language, Learning About Language
  • Beliefs Guide Actions
  • Day 1: INVITE CHILDREN TO GET STARTED
  • Helping Children Understand Time That's Governed by Purpose
  • The Difference Between Writing as Process and Writing as Procedure
  • Questions to Help Children Think About People Who Make Books
  • Picturing Writers at Work
  • Planting Seeds of Teaching as you Share Children's Finished Books
  • Deciding Who Will Share at the End of Writing Workshop
  • Telling Stories of Process
  • Big Ideas and Teaching Possibilities
  • Day 2: NAME CHILDREN'S ACTIONS AS PROCESS
  • Questions That Believe Children Into Being
  • Understanding What it Means to Be Finished
  • Three Key Reading Strategies for Beginning Writers
  • Valuing Children's Long, Slow Work on a Book
  • Recognizing Children's Actions as Writing Process
  • Big Ideas and Teaching Possibilities
  • DAY 3: SET EXPECTATIONS FOR PICTURES AND WORDS
  • Positioning Children So They're Willing to Try Writing Words
  • Narrating Your Actions to Show Children How Written Language Works
  • Composing with Words Involves a Lot More Than Just Spelling
  • Embedding Teaching Points in Your Authentic Talk with Children
  • Embedding Big Ideas About Texts
  • Embedding Big Ideas About Process
  • Embedding Big Ideas About What it Means to Be a Writer
  • Resisting the Urge to Overteach
  • Maintaining Children' Confidence Once They Start Writing Words
  • A Problem with Dictation
  • Big Ideas and Teaching Possibilities
  • DAY 4: OFFER CHILDREN STRATEGIES FOR WORD MAKING
  • The Typical Range of Word-Making Development
  • Expanding the Definition of Reading (To Make Sense of Beginning Writing)
  • The Usefulness of Alphabet Charts
  • Strategies for Word Making
  • The Importance of Noticing and Naming – And What to Notice
  • Why Young Children Need to Talk During Writing Workshop
  • Editing Possibilities for Beginning Writers
  • Big Ideas and Teaching Possibilities
  • DAY 5: SHOW CHILDREN HOW TO MANAGE BOOK MAKING OVER TIME
  • What Happens When Writers Reread
  • Pictures First or Words First?
  • Deciding When a Book is Finished
  • Teaching Children to Read Their Books
  • Learning About the Writing Process in the Context of Illustrations
  • Typical Development as Children Learn to Keep Their Meanings Consistent
  • Big Ideas and Teaching Possibilities
  • DAYS AFTER: SUPPORT CHILDREN IN THE EARLY WEEKS OF SCHOOL
  • Sharing Finished Books
  • Encouraging Fearless Spelling
  • Embracing Different Writers' Processes
  • Illustrating with Intention
  • Managing Ongoing Work
  • Celebrating Growth Over Time
  • When the Camera Shuts Off

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