Books in Teaching the Craft of Writing series

A concise and thoughtful guide that shows teachers how to introduce, teach, and reinforce revision and editing practices. Includes a kick-off lesson, classroom-tested revision strategies that enrich students’ writing, and editing techniques that help students polish their work. Covers peer response, interactive editing, using proofreading marks, and much more. An essential resource for any writing teacher.

In this concise and thoughtful guide, veteran teacher and children’s author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested strategies that help students elaborate effectively. Lessons on choosing precise nouns and verbs, developing an extensive vocabulary, creating powerful comparisons, questioning the writing, and showing emotions through action help students enrich their writing. An essential resource for any writing teacher.

This concise and thoughtful guide offers lessons and strategies for creating powerful leads and memorable endings. Drawing on quality children’s literature, Kathleen Hurni-Dove shows how to use exemplars to inspire students and show them the variety of possibilities for leads and endings, which helps students move beyond Hi my name is ________ and The End. An essential resource for any writing teacher.

In this concise and thoughtful guide, expert teacher and veteran author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested lessons and practical strategies that help students identify voice in writing and learn how to include it in their own work. Students find their voices through quickwrites, author studies, guided revision practice, compare-and-contrast exercises, and more. Complete with fiction and nonfiction models, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this is an essential resource for any writing teacher. For use with Grades 2-4.

A concise and thoughtful guide that shows teachers how to introduce, teach, and reinforce organizational strategies. Includes lessons on planning and organizing personal narratives, fiction, poetry, and information writing. Full of model plans, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this resource will keep the topic of organization fresh and alive all year long. For use with Grades 2-4.

A concise and thoughtful guide that helps teachers get students to generate meaningful writing ideas. Veteran teacher and children’s book author Lola Schaefer demonstrates how to help students find ideas that matter—in everyday life, in books, through careful observation, by wondering about the world, and by sketching images and taking photographs, among other strategies. An essential resource for any writing teacher.