CNewman

This book is an attempt by the authors to help teachers by offering lessons to teach writing.  They do not want teachers to depend on these lessons but use them to help explore what children can learn about writing and understand behaviors of certain grade levels.There are four beliefs about writing: time, response, responsibility and literature.  Writers need to write on a regular schedule, teachers need to respond to students about their writing, students need to feel ownership and they need challenging literature to show them a variety of styles.  The most important thing is to talk about literature and its elements. 

I am very interested in reading more and deciding if these lessons will be appropriate for my classroom.  I agree with the authors about how children learn to write and already incorporate a lot of these ideas in my teaching of writing.  However, I am at this time, trying to teach my class how to write a story that has a beginning, middle and end and flows from sentence to sentence.  I can use some new ideas or new ways of teaching these skills.