"This book seeks to reinvigorate the teaching of writing by harkening back to the original principles of the writing workshop, offering teachers a meaningful way to teach children how to write with enthusiasm and expertise. The author argues that we must focus again on genuine curiosity, individual choice, big blocks of time, quality conversations, and powerful children's literature"--
Teachers and writers everywhere are facing the limits imposed by the prevailing models of teaching: community or MFA “workshops” or, at the high-school level, “peer review.” In Beyond the Writers' Workshop Carol Bly presents an ...
"We believe new technologies can advance both the teaching and learning of writing." -The National Commission on Writing in American Schools and Colleges, The Neglected 'R': The Need for a...
"This book offers a unique interpretation of traditional workshop instruction by showing teachers how to integrate their separate reading and writing workshops into one 'literacy workshop' (periodically and as dictated by student needs) ...
In a clear and lively style, with rich literary references from classic and contemporary fiction, Novakovich teaches you how to: uncover ideas worth writing about; evoke a vivid sense of...
In Beyond the Margins: Rethinking the Art and Craft of Writing, writer and international writing workshop leader, June S. Gould offers a seemingly endless variety of prompts and exercises.
This book provides practical suggestions for teachers of writing.
A Poetics of Fiction
Introduces a new approach to the writing of creative nonfiction that integrates principles and techniques from social work, psychotherapy, and neuroscience with traditional teaching to develop a new style of nonfiction writing.
Karen Armstrong, “Marilynne Robinson's 'The Givenness of Things,' ” New York Times, 7 December 2015, web. 25. ... see pinterest.com, https://s-media-cacheak0.pinimg.com/736x/c7/2a/45/c72a45fcc1e6aff26b6a35f8a60fc3c3.jpg. 32.
"...This book isn't a compilation of tear-out reproducibles designed to help us replicate Linda's practices," writes Maja Wilson in the foreword.