Getting the Most Out of Morning Message and Other Shared Writing Lessons (Grades K-2)

This comprehensive guide to shared writing is filled with strategies for writing collaboratively with emergent writers. Explains the link between shared writing and independent writing, offers ideas for collaborative writing with children across the curriculum, provides assessment forms and classroom examples to help you know where students are in their writing development.

Carleen daCruz Payne is a teacher at Centre Ridge Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. Mary Browning Schulman teaches at William Halley Elementary in the same district. They are the authors of the best-selling Getting the Most Out of Morning Message and Other Shared Writing Lessons, a Scholastic Teaching Resources Book.