Teaching Writing by Lucy Calkins

Teaching Writing by Lucy Calkins

Teaching Writing is Lucy Calkins at her best—a distillation of the work that’s placed Lucy and her colleagues at the forefront of the teaching of writing for over thirty years. This book promises to inspire teachers to teach with renewed passion and power and to invigorate the entire school day.

This is a book for readers who want an introduction to the writing workshop, and for those who’ve lived and breathed this work for decades. Although Lucy addresses the familiar topics—the writing process, conferring, kinds of writing, and writing assessment—she helps us see those topics with new eyes. She clears away the debris to show us the teeny details, and she shows us the majesty and meaning, too, in these simple yet powerful teaching acts. Download a sample chapter for more information.

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Lucy Calkins is the founder and director of Columbia University's Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She has headed the Project in its dual roles as a think tank creating cutting-edge teaching practices and a supplier of professional development, assisting hundreds of thousands of teachers, principals, superintendents, and policymakers across the country and around the world for more than three decades. Lucy is the author or coauthor - as well as the series editor - of the reading, writing, and phonics Units of Study series, which are used in tens of thousands of classrooms worldwide. She has also written a number of professional books and articles. Lucy is also a co-director of the Literacy Specialist Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is the Robinson Professor of Children's Literature. Order Materials by Lucy Calkins at UnitsofStudy.com.