{"title":"Katie Ray","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"already-ready-book-katie-ray-9780325010731","title":"ALREADY READY","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom the very first chapter of this informative and inspiring book, a clear picture emerges of how even three- and four-year-olds' capacities for serious authorship can and should be supported.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e - Lillian G. Katz\u003c\/b\u003e Coauthor of \u003ci\u003eYoung Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years\u003c\/i\u003e By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express - they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher like you to recognize the writer at work within them. All you need to help them is \u003ci\u003eAlready Ready\u003c\/i\u003e. Taking an exciting, new approach to working with our youngest students, \u003ci\u003eAlready Ready \u003c\/i\u003eshows you how, by respecting children as writers, engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover guide you through fundamental concepts of early writing. 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Find that approach, share it with your students, and you'll discover that you don't have to get students ready to write - they're \u003ci\u003eAlready Ready\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49879122706705,"sku":"CIN0325010730VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889862844689,"sku":"CIN0325010730G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51346405294353,"sku":"GOR014232187","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52329518858513,"sku":"GOR007295749","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0325010730.jpg?v=1750781396"},{"product_id":"in-pictures-and-in-words-book-katie-ray-9780325028552","title":"In Pictures and In Words","description":"Make abstract qualities like tone, detail, and organization easily visible for young writers with Katie Wood Ray's In Pictures and in Words. \"If teachers show children how an illustrator's decisions about pictures are a lot like a writer's decisions about words, they form a bridge of understanding that nurtures children as writers.\" -Katie Wood Ray       Katie (beloved author of About the Authors and Already Ready) begins with a strong, classroom-based research foundation for this powerful, intuitive idea. She then suggests 50 ways you might use illustrations to help students internalize key aspects of craft through their love of picture books.       In Pictures and in Words is filled with sample student work that documents how children's thinking deepens as they explore illustrations. Katie even includes full-color pages of published illustrations with examples of sticky-notes that show the kinds of links students can make between pictures and words.       Give children an engaging way to make the qualities of good writing part of everything they write, for life. 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