Building a Writing Community (Maupin House)

New and experienced teachers appreciate this easy-to-use yet comprehensive approach to teaching young writers style and genre characteristics, composing skills, conventions, and the writing process itself. The classroom-tested techniques satisfy young writers' need for structure and content while offering them freedom to develop their style, repertoire, and voice. More than 350 classroom-tested models, lessons, procedures and activities, and thirty-seven reproducibles. If you want to create a community of writers who love to write and speak the language of writers, you'll love this book. Bonus! Fold-out ""Skills Development Chart"" helps your school integrate writing process teaching in grades K-6.

Marcia Sheehan Freeman, an internationally recognized writing education consultant and author, assists districts across the nation in implementing K-8 writing instruction programs. She is also a writing and science consultant for educational publishers. The Cornell University graduate began her career as a high school science teacher before moving up to the elementary classroom.

She is the author of Building a Writing Community; Teaching the Youngest Writers; Listen to This: Developing an Ear for Expository; Models for Teaching Writing-Craft Target Skills, and most recently, Crafting Comparison Papers. These writing-education books are highly valued classroom-teacher resources, and serve as college texts in many teacher preparation programs. Her other publications include three works of children s fiction and 50 photo-illustrated science and geography Big Books and non-fiction guided reading books for Newbridge Educational Publishers, Rand McNally, Rourke Classroom Resources, and Capstone Press.

She is co-creator of the Readers for Writers series for Rourke Classroom Resources. This guided, K-2 reading and writing program with photo-illustrated, leveled texts is based on the National Science Standards.

In 2001, Maupin House released CraftPlus®, the culmination of Marcia s comprehensive writing-craft instructional approach. The nation s first and only K-8 writing curriculum and staff development resource focuses on teaching students the explicit Target SkillsTM and techniques that all writers use. This innovative, video-based resource includes a spiraling, craft-based curriculum, instructional pacing charts, and professional books. It focuses on expository, informational genres to directly support core content-area reading programs. CraftPlus® includes classroom management techniques for writing workshop instruction and study guides for study-group learning.