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A Teacher's Guide to Getting Started with Beginning Writers

The Classroom Essentials Series

Katie Wood Ray, Lisa B Cleaveland

Grade: K-2nd

Pub Date: 10/3/2018

How can I help my youngest students become writers?

How can I establish a routine for writing in my classroom?

Why is making books developmentally appropriate?

In Lisa Cleaveland’s classroom, writing workshop is a time every day when her students make books. Katie Wood Ray guides you through the first days in Lisa’s classroom, offering ideas, information,... more

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Blog Post: PLC Series: Entry Points for Writers

Welcome to a new year of content and conversation in Heinemann's PLC Series.This month we focus on the craft of teaching writers—not the writing.It is our joyful responsibility as teachers to nurture the writers in our classrooms and to help them build writing identities as young as possible.... more

Blog Post: PLC Series: Why A Community of Writers?

Consider Keep this Guiding Question in mind: Why does cultivating oneself as writer within a community provide so many benefits?EducateListen to the wise words of this young elementary student as she tells Stephanie Parsons, author of one of our On-Demand Courses Introduction to Writer’s Workshop, why a community of writers is so important to her and her classmates.ReflectDo... more

Blog Post: PLC Series: Uncovering Student Writers

Welcome to a new year of content and conversation in Heinemann's PLC Series.This month we focus on the craft of teaching writers—not the writing.Take a moment to look around your classroom.... more

Blog Post: PLC Series: New Beginnings for Writers

Welcome back to the Heinemann PD Professional Learning Community Series!This month we celebrate new beginnings for teachers and learners across the country.Welcome back to the Heinemann PD Professional Learning Community Series!... more

The UOS Phonics Series

The Units of Study in Phonics for grades K–2 provide a lean and concise instructional pathway towards high-leverage phonics concepts and strategies such as digraphs, blends, high frequency words, and more. Designed to keep pace with students' reading and writing, these units and help young readers and writers understand when, how, and why they can use phonics to read... more

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Blog Post: How Making Books Helps Writers

Katie is also the series editor for the new Classroom Essentials books from Heinemann.You can find her on Twitter at @KatieWoodRay... more

Writers ARE Readers

Flipping Reading Instruction into Writing Opportunities

Lester L. Laminack, Reba M. Wadsworth

Grade: K-5th

Pub Date: 8/24/2015

In Writers Are Readers, the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of “flipsides;” how a reader’s insights can be turned around to provide insights into his own writing, and vice versa. Lester and Reba’s trademark engaging style is woven throughout chapters full of sample lessons, student writing samples, and recommended... more

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Blog Post: Writers ARE Readers: Plot Opportunities

In Writers ARE Readers, the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of "flipsides," or how a reader's insights can be turned around to provide insights into his own writing, and vice versa.... more

Blog Post: Your Introduction to Getting Started with Beginning Writers

Katie is also the series editor for the new Classroom Essentials books from Heinemann.You can find her on Twitter at @KatieWoodRay... more