Writing Through Childhood: Rethinking Process and Product

by ASCD Distinguished Educator Award and Shelley Harwayne

Recommended by the Ontario Ministry Of Education Grades K-5 Shelley Harwayne has been rethinking the teaching of writing ever since she opened the Manhattan New School ten years ago. There, as principal, she had the unique opportunity to follow her students' growth as writers from the very first day they entered kindergarten through graduation six years later. Now, as superintendent of her New York City school district, Shelley continues to take a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325002908
• ISBN13: 9780325002903
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5

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How to best teach writing and writing workshops to children

Writing Through Childhood: Rethinking Process And Product by Shelley Harwayne (Co-Director, Teachers College Writing Project; Founding Principal, Manhattan New School; and Superintendent of District #2) challenges modern conceptions on how to best teach writing and writing workshops to children. Drawing upon her ten-year experience as the principal of a school, and someone who personally watched children grow as writers from kindergarten through sixth grade, Writing Through Childhood is filled cover to cover with memories, samples, astute observations, and serious, personal experience of helping children learn to express and improve themselves. A fascinating read and highly recommended for both writing teachers of grade-school children.