classroom nonfiction elementary curriculum

books:

The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

2 reviews
Katie Wood Ray, Lester L. Laminack

National Council of Teachers of English, 2001

The best book on Writing Workshop that I've read.
If you can only get one book on teaching writing using the Writer's Workshop model let it be this one. It's detailed, full of practical tips, but most important--you will be INSPIRED! I immediately started my own writer's notebook after I read this book. One caveat...this is not a book that you can pick up on Sunday night because you want to start the program on Monday morning. This book is ...

About the Authors Book + DVD: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers

6 reviews
Katie Wood Ray, Lisa Cleaveland

Heinemann, 2007

Beginning Writing Workshop
This is a great book to help k-2 teachers implement writing workshop in the classroom. It offers ideas on how to begin, units of study, and books to incorporate into your mini-lessons. I recommend this book to anyone venturing into the writing workshop approach to teaching writing to young children.

What You Know by Heart: How to Develop Curriculum for Your Writing Workshop

4 reviews
Katie Wood Ray

Topeka Bindery, 2002

Confused about mentor texts in mini-lessons?
Beware teachers, only read this book if you are ready to dive deeper into what it means to teach writing, as a writer! This is the first book I've read that explicitly breaks down how to use mentor texts and my own writing to support student learning in a writer's workshop. Katie Wood Ray uses wonderful examples of how to write and read like a teacher of writing. The first part of the book ...

First Grade Writers: Units of Study to Help Children Plan, Organize, and Structure Their Ideas

4 reviews
Stephanie Parsons

Heinemann, 2005

Right on Target
I love this book! I have been teaching first grade for eight years, and this book really addresses first grade writers as they truely are. It has some wonderful, concrete ideas for improving their writing. I especially like the suggestions of Read Aloud titles to teach specific writing points.

Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom

8 reviews
Katie Wood Ray

National Council of Teachers of English, 1999

THE BEST EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE OUT THERE!
As a writer of children's books and a second grade teacher, I refer to this book often - for support, guidance, affirmation, ideas, writing help, and more. It is perfect! I hope to have the opportunity to cross paths with the author one day...I'd love to see her speak! I recommend it all the time to teaching colleagues, friends, writers, and editors.

A Bus of My Own/Kissinger/The Happy Isles of Oceania/About the Authors/Marrying the Hangman (Reader's Digest ...
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Already Ready: Nurturing Writers in Preschool and Kindergarten

15 reviews
Katie Wood Ray, Matt Glover

Heinemann, 2008

Already Ready
Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover's book is a `must read' for all early childhood educators. I also recommend it to parents of young children as well as primary grade teachers who want to know more about how young writers develop. Although Ray and Glover admit that the skills of writing are complex, they assert that they can and should be supported in even the youngest children--as soon as they ...

Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop

5 reviews
Katie Wood Ray

Heinemann, 2006

A Great Book for Writing Teachers
Why isn't this book more widely read? Wood-Ray offers excellent direction to teachers - at all grade levels - who are seeking to improve the instruction of writing. Her central ideas are: 1. Texts should be used to mentor students to write real things in the ways real writers write. 2. Writing needs to be `studied' and not `taught.' 3. Teachers need to be writers and gatherers of mentor ...