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Understanding Writing
Ways of Observing, Learning, and Teaching

Edited by Nancie Atwell, Center for Teaching and Learning, Maine, Thomas Newkirk, University of New Hampshire

ISBN 978-0-435-08441-7 / 0-435-08441-0 / 1987 / 324pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann
Availability: In Stock

Grade Level: 4-10

List Price: $28.00

Writing teachers must be observers. At the heart of writing-process instruction is the art of informed observation.The Skilled teacher needs to determine what students can do, what changes they've made, what patterns of assistance they receive from other students, what themes dominate their writing. And teachers need to observe themselves—to reflect on what they see and do.

Understanding Writing is a book about observing. It contains no recipes for success. What it does contain are thirty chapters, most written by classroom teachers, that provide insights into student growth. The book is rich in examples of student work, from Kevin's self-portrait (complete with a point on his head) to Laura's eloquent poem, written after the shuttle explosion.

Table of Contents

    Contents:
    Beginnings
    1. A Child Composes, K. Matthews
    2. Labeling to Beginning Narrative: Four Kindergarten Children Learn to Write, J. Hilliker
    3. Oscar's Journal, S. Durst
    4. Reading to Mr. Bear, E. Chiseri-Strater
    5. The Rhythm of Writing Development, E. Karelitz
    6. Beyond Storyland: Young Writers Can Tell It Other Ways, S. Bonin
    7. Second-graders Can So Write, V. D'Ambrosio
    8. Six Questions Teachers Ask about Invented Spelling, S. Sowers Collaborative Learning
    9. The Writer's Chart to Discovery, J. Simmons
    10. Letting Children Lead the Way, S. Cadieux
    11. Squeezing from the Middle of the Tube, S. Bridge
    12. Note Writing: A Neglected Genre, E. Karelitz
    13. A Special Writer at Work, N. Atwell
    14. Reflect, Expand, Select: Three Responses in the Writing Conference, S Sowers
    15. Children Responding to Children: Writing Groups and Classroom Community, S. Brady and S. Jacobs Writing and Reading
    16. Young Writers as Critical Readers, T. Newkirk
    17. The Write Way to Read, P Flemming
    18. A Writer Reads, A Reader Writes, M. Giacobbe
    19. The Written Report: Old Wine in New Bottles, J. Wilde
    20. The Fox in Possum's Clothing: The Teacher Disguised as Writer, in Hot Pursuit of Literacy, M. Fox Assessment
    21. Reading and Talking: "Special" Readers Show They Know, S. Stires
    22. Using Writing Folders to Document Student Progress, A Bingham
    23. Send Your Writing Folders Home, J Rynkofs
    24. Making the Grade: Evaluating Writing in Conference, N. Atwell
    25. The Bundle, H. Halley Programs and Progress
    26. Choosing a Language Arts Textbook, M. Giacobbe
    27. How to Cover a Language Arts Text: Sit on It ,C. Brennan Reflections
    28. Time and the Taking of It, D. Sumner
    29. Split Images: Teacher and Learner, M. Bunce
    30. Safety, E. Parillo Resources Selected Bibliography on Writing and Its Teaching, R. Hubbard

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