What You Know by Heart: How to Develop Curriculum for Your Writing Workshop / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780325003641 Publisher: Heinemann Publication date: 06/05/2002 Edition description: New Edition Pages: 208 Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d) Age Range: 5 - 13 Years No one can say it better than Lucy Calkins-Katie Ray has written a wise, comforting, intimate book. It goes to the heart of where good ideas for teaching of good writing originate: from yourself and your own experience. As Katie shows, the most profound and effective curriculum can result from your own deep understanding of quality writing-what you know about writing through your own and others' writings and through your reading. And the best teaching can result from what you can wrap your heart and mind around and communicate to your students. It is this very personal approach and contagious enthusiasm that Katie brings to bear on creating curriculum for her own writing workshops. Her book shows how you can do it for your own. In Part One, Katie takes a close look at the lines of thinking you can u