Alone, About the Authors and The Teaching Behind About the Authors each help you understand how powerful instruction can support amazing learning in the very youngest students—children in kindergarten through second grade.
But together these superb resources create an unusually compelling professional learning experience.
About the Authors is nationally acclaimed researcher Katie Wood Ray’s comprehensive guide to teaching young writers, the perfect companion for new or veteran teachers. In the DVD, The Teaching Behind About the Authors,Katie shows you how her ideas work in daily practice by guiding you through the classroom of an outstanding teacher, Lisa Cleaveland, providing insight into why Lisa gets such effective results with her students.
This powerful book and DVD combination:
· describes how to implement writing workshop with young children, with special attention to developmental considerations
· explains and shows how the components of a workshop work in daily learning (minilesson, writing time, conferring, and share sessions)
· offers explicit demonstration teaching, complete with effective instructional language and in-action examples of the crucial teacher activities that support the workshop
· presents units of study for use in your workshop and shows exactly how to teach them and make them inviting for all students while covering genre, text structures, idea generation, and other important topics
· infuses your own practice with the confidence and energy that come from using Katie’s proven practices
· increases your repertoire of teaching techniques by making Lisa’s teaching viewable (and reviewable).
About the Authors and The Teaching Behind About the Authors is the ideal combo for individual study or for large- or small-group professional development. Best of all, it’s the rare instance where show and tell come together to create meaningful experiences for children and teachers. Work with About the Authors and The Teaching Behind About the Authors and get ready to be dazzled by our littlest writers.
