This book provides detailed instruction on teaching writing within total language arts programs in K–8 classrooms. The text provides an in-depth methodology of learning to write, including the interactions of reading, spelling, vocabulary instruction, and other language arts. The text emphasizes reform and accountability with its balanced skills and process instruction, and its focus on assessment.
Leif Fearn discovered writing in his third decade and started learning how to teach it, by observing what he and other writers were doing, in his fourth. He teaches young writers in K-12 schools and also at San Diego State University.