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ED263614 CS209452
Title: Lessons from a Child: On the Teaching and Learning of Writing.
Author(s): Calkins, Lucy McCormick
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0-435-08206-X
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Heinemann Educational Books Inc., 70 Court St., Portsmouth, NH 03801 ($11.00).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Reports--Research (143)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Hampshire
Journal Announcement: RIEAPR1986
Target Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Drawn from
a larger study involving 16 children and 7 classrooms at a New Hampshire
elementary school, this book presents a case study of one child's
growth in writing during third and fourth grade. The first section
of the book describes the inception of the writing workshop in one
classroom, including the partnership between the researcher implementing
the workshop and the classroom teacher, the use of teacher editing
at the end of the writing process rather than sooner, and the teacher's
role as she took over a child-centered workshop in an otherwise
traditional classroom curriculum. The second section of the book
focuses on the writing development of one student, including the
child's gradual grasp of the revision process, her development of
the writer's "executive" or reader's function, and her
mastery of writing and revision strategies. The third section of
the book deals with the writing classroom as a context for growth,
specifically how a different classroom teacher approached the workshop
model with an emphasis on peer interaction during the writing process,
how the child's writing reflected her changing concept of what good
writing was, and how reading and writing can be integrated to further
children's writing development. (HTH)
Descriptors: Case Studies; Developmental Stages; Elementary Education;
Revision (Written Composition); Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Student
Relationship; *Teaching Methods; Writing Improvement; *Writing Processes;
*Writing Research
Identifiers: Writing Attitudes; *Writing Workshops
