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 * [[image:readshare/nutsandbolts.jpg]] || == __The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Writing__ ==

Spring 2012
|| =Book Summary=

As the first book in the series of //Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum//, __The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Writing__ serves as a starting point for educators by providing a comprehensive overview of the writing workshop in the lower elementary grades. This is an introductory resource for effective strategies, structures, and methods that build a foundation for successful writing instruction throughout the school year. Beginning from identification of how students write to, this book contains valuable information for teachers on how to plan curriculum, manage the workshop environment, use minilessons, confer with young writers, and other insights on best practices for supporting the teaching of writing.

Author Biography
Lucy Calkins is the founder of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Begun in 1981, the think tank and teacher training institute has hundreds of thousands of educators across the country. Calkins is one of the original architects of the “workshop” approach to teaching writing to children, which holds that writing is a process, with distinct phases, and that all children, not just those with innate talent, can learn to write well. She is author of some 20 books, including the best-selling The Art of Teaching Writing (250,000 sold). According to the project web site, books by its leaders are “widely regarded as foundational to language arts education throughout the English-speaking world.” She is currently the Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College at Columbia University.

Her work includes:
 * The Conferring Handbook**


 * Resources for Primary Writing**


 * Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum**


 * Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades 3-5**


 * Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5**


 * The Art of Teaching**


 * The Art of Teaching Writing**




 * Big Lesson from Small Writers**


 * [|Link to Common Core Reading and Writing Workshop Series Booklist]**
 * The Common Core Reading and Writing Workshop Series**

Handout
Minilesson Handout