Growing Up Writing: Mini-Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers - Softcover

Dierking, Connie Campbell; Jones, Sherra Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929895711 ISBN 13: 9780929895710

Publisher: Maupin House Pub, 2003

Synopsis

Introduce the effective power of the mini-lesson format into your classroom and discover the skills you need to teach your young writers. With fifty-nine mini-lessons organized by the function they serve in the kindergarten classroom, and calendars that outline skills expectations for your students' first year of writing instruction, this resource helps you customize the power of Writers' Workshop so you can meet the needs of your emergent writers.

About this title

About the Author:

Connie Dierking holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in special education, both from Kansas State University. During the past 32 years, Connie Dierking has experienced the joys of teaching kindergarten, second grade, third grade, and exceptional education students. She has experience as a reading/writing demonstration teacher, reading coach, and writing staff developer. She also provided guidance for literacy teachers throughout the southwest region of Florida as a Reading Coordinator. She currently writes literacy curriculum and is an instructional staff developer for Pinellas County Schools in Florida. She is the author of several books written for literacy teachers to assist with the teaching of writing and reading in the primary grades, including Linking K-2 Literacy and the Common Core: Mini-Lessons that Work, and co-author of Growing Up Writing: Mini-Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers. She conducts professional development in the areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening throughout the country.

Review:

"This book is jam-packed with strategic mini-lessons that teachers have been desperately searching for. Connie and Sherra have done an outstanding job of bringing simplicity to focused instruction."

About this edition

• Publisher: Maupin House Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0929895711
• ISBN 13: 9780929895710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 131