Introduction Chapter 1: How do I Build and Maintain a Writing Community? Chapter 2: What Should Students Know and Be Able to Do As Writers? Chapter 3: What Are Key Instructional Practices to Know and Use? Chapter 4 How do I Use Assessment For Students' Benefit? Chapter 5: How do you shift agency from teacher to students in the writing classroom? References
Part of the Five-to-Thrive series, this book serves as a go-to desk companion designed to meet you at the moment you need instructional answers.
Melanie Meehan has been the Elementary Writing and Social Studies Coordinator in Simsbury, Connecticut, since 2012. Within that position, she writes curriculum, works with teachers, and strives to send students off into the world as confident writers who love to express their ideas. Melanie is a co-author of Two Writing Teachers, a blog dedicated to the teaching of writing, as well as a regular contributor to Choice and Lead Literacy. She wrote Every Child Can Write, which was published by Corwin Press in October 2019, and she co-authored The Responsive Writing Teacher with Kelsey Sorum, which was published in 2021. You can reach Melanie on Twitter, @MelanieMeehan1.