ED359550 CS213942
Title: Living between the Lines.
Author(s): Calkins, Lucy McCormick; Harwayne, Shelley
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0-435-08538-7
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 361 Hanover Street,
Portsmouth, NH 03801 ($20 plus 10% of order shipping/handling).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Guides--Classroom--Teacher (052); Reports--Descriptive
(141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Hampshire
Journal Announcement: RIEDEC1993
Target Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Intended for
both experienced and novice K-12 teachers, this book invites teachers
to bring new life into the reading-writing workshop and calls for
teachers to push back the frontiers of their thinking about teaching
writing and reading. The book includes chapters on establishing
courses of study in which children read and write memoir, picture
books, and nonfiction; the story of how writers' notebooks and a
new focus on rehearsal have led to a major rethinking of the writing
workshop; a look at the qualities of good writing; an introduction
to literature and ways these texts can enrich classrooms; and an
invitation to pioneer new ideas about conferring, record keeping,
mini-lessons, and organizational structures for the workshop. Chapters
in the book are: (1) Big Dreams and Tall Ambitions in the Teaching
of Writing; (2) A Place for Writing and Reading; (3) Shared Stories
Turn Classrooms into Communities; (4) The Notebook: A Tool for Writing
and Living; (5) Rereading and Reflecting: Adding Growth Rings of
Meaning to Our Writing; (6) From Notebooks to Projects; (7) Revision
of Teaching; (8) When Writers Clear the Sills of Their World; (9)
Silent Spaces and Study Groups in the Reading and Writing Workshop;
(10) New Frontiers; (11) Picture Books and the Magic of "Once
upon a Time"; (12) Memoir: Reading and Writing the Story of
Our Lives; (13) And the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Bringing Our Lives
to Nonfiction Research; (14) Learning to Confer in Ways That Last
a Lifetime; (15) Records of Growth; (16) Hopes and Horizons: Understanding
Our Children's Images of Good Writing; (17) Density in Writing:
When Tests Take Writers and Readers on Significant Journeys; (18)
On Loving Words; and (19) Nurturing Writing, Nurturing Teaching.
(RS)
Descriptors: Creative Writing; Elementary School Teachers; Elementary
Secondary Education; Reading Instruction; Reading Writing Relationship;
Secondary School Teachers; Writing Evaluation; Writing Improvement;
*Writing Instruction; *Writing Workshops
Identifiers: *Childrens Writing; Writing Contexts
