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Title: The Art of Teaching Writing
by Lucy McCormick Calkins
ISBN: 0-435-08817-3
Publisher: Heinemann
Pub. Date: 04 April, 1994
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $39.95
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Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (16 reviews)

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Rating: 4
Summary: Bookreview of The Art of Teaching Writing
Comment: For those first-time teachers as well as education fanatics, The Art of Teaching Writing is an excellent book that provides pointers and examples useful in the classroom. Lucy McCormick Calkins allows her readers to easily and fully understand the information in which she presents in the text. With chapters that divide into specific areas of focus, Calkins covers an immense amount of topics related to writing and its process in education. Ranging from tapping the energy for writing and teaching adolescents: improvisation and commitment, to establishing a predictable workshop environment and making memoir out of the pieces of our lives, these subjects are able to reach anyone interested in learning and teaching new approaches to writing. Although Calkins book is quite big and long, it was an easy read. And especially if you are a teacher yourself, or aspiring to become one, her novel is interesting and helpful. It stands as a strong base for support and ideas about teaching writing, which is necessary in their career.

Rating: 5
Summary: To Teach Writing---Read About The Art of Teaching Writing
Comment: This book was used in the two summer sessions of the Colorado Writing Project that I have taken. It is geared more towards elementary teachers, yet I teach middle school & have learned so much from Calkins. It gives great scenarios of teachers not giving proper feedback to child writers & gives examples of what is better. As teachers, we know that even constructive criticism is not always taken well by children. Calkins knows it's hard to teach writing without the criticism, but she helps us learn to conference better with our kids. Being able to say the write thing(pun intended) at the right time is crucial. The book reteaches the stages of writing and gives hundreds of samples of student writing. It's a great book to go along with the book What A Writer Needs. Also, Calkins just came out with The Art of Teaching Reading...I just got a copy & can't wait to have the same great experience as I have had with The Art of Teaching Writing. Of course, these are books we are done reading...never done learning!

Rating: 3
Summary: Review of The Art of Teaching Writing
Comment: Calkins book was an easy, yet informative read. As a education student, I learned a lot about how to motivate children to want to write. Calkins techniques are practical and simple. It seems that the book could be geared to not just elementary grades, but also to middle school ages. The examples of student writings were great. I will definitely be re-reading this book when I begin teaching in a couple of years.

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