Teaching the Youngest Writers: A Practical Guide

Take your students from emergent to elaborate writers. This book shows you how. The most complete guide available to conducting a daily writing workshop in the primary grades, this easy-to-use professional resource includes models for managing the writing process. Teaching the Youngest Writers explains the expository, descriptive, and personal-narrative writing techniques your students need to become fluent writers. Includes stages of emergent writing, how to set up your room, how to schedule and manage the daily writing workshop, how to conduct an Author's Chair, and how to model writing and efficient peer conferences. A classic and complete resource.

Marcia S. Freeman is a children's author and noted writing-education consultant specializing in the practical aspects of writing instruction and creating classroom writing communities. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed Building a Writing Community: A Practical Guide, and Listen to This: Developing an Ear for Expository. Her children's books include Catfish and Spaghetti )fiction for children in grades 305), Push and Pull; Wetland; Polar Bears; Pine Trees; Fireboats; and other photo-illustrated, non-fiction books for emergent readers. Her column, The Youngest Writers, appears regularly in The Florida Primary Educator Magazine.