Living Between the Lines

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.6
EAN: 9780435085384
ISBN: 0435085387
Label: Heinemann
Manufacturer: Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: November 15, 1990
Publisher: Heinemann
Studio: Heinemann

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Living Between the Lines is a heartening invitation to bring new life into reading-writing workshops. Calkins has woven insights, practical suggestions, references, and anecdotes into this inspirational story of a community of educators who have pushed back the frontiers of what we know about teaching writing and reading.

Personal in approach and comprehensive in presentation, this book includes: 08538

• the story of how writers' notebooks and a new attention to rehearsal have led to important revisions in many writing workshops
• major chapters on establishing courses of study in which children read and write memoir, nonfiction, and picturebooks
• a new look at the qualities of good writing and ways we can help children grow into them
• references to the best of children's literature and to ways these books can enrich our classrooms
• an invitation to pioneer new ideas about conferring, record keeping, mini-lessons, and organizational structures for the workshop.

Rating: - Expands the possibilities of writing workshops
Living Between the Lines is a great book for people who have some experience using writing workshops in their classrooms and are looking for ways to help students find interesting and meaningful topics for writing. Calkins' explains her use of notebooks to get students to become more aware of their surroundings and more sensitive to the importance of daily events. She includes great questions to use when having students review their notebooks. Although the students in the book are elementary ... Read More

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