The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (and They're All Hard Parts)

by Lester L. Laminack and Katie Wood Ray

Book Overview

This seminal book is a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.

In The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray offers a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814113176
• ISBN13: 9780814113172
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

The writing workshop

Great Book for new upcoming elementary teachers! It really tells you how to teach an elementary student writing!

Awesome resource

I love this book. It makes the writing workshop experience enjoyable. I went through Lucy Calkins training and then found Katie Ray and it all started to work together.

The best book on Writing Workshop that I've read.

If you can only get one book on teaching writing using the Writer's Workshop model let it be this one. It's detailed, full of practical tips, but most important--you will be INSPIRED! I immediately started my own writer's notebook after I read this book. One caveat...this is not a book that you can pick up on Sunday night because you want to start the program on Monday morning. This book is written to be read and re-read, pondered and poured over. That having been said, this is NOT just a book of theory, it thoroughly and lovingly explains all the nuts-and-bolts of the workshop.