Includes bibliographies and index

When Lucy Calkins wrote the first edition of The Art of
Teaching Writing, the writing workshop was a fledgling
idea, piloted by a few brave innovators. Now, as she
brings us this new edition, the writing workshop is at the
foundation of language arts education throughout the
English-speaking world. This new edition, then, could
easily have been a restatement, in grander, more confident
tones, of the original classic. Instead, it is an almost
entirely new book. Clearly, during the time in which
Calkins's original ideas have spread like wildfire, her
focus has not been on articulating and defending those
ideas, but on developing and rethinking them. Respecting
and responding to the questions which have arisen as
thousands of teachers establish writing workshops in their
classrooms, and drawing upon the latest knowledge in the
field and her own intimate understanding of classroom life,
Calkins has re-thought every line and every facet of her
original text. In this new edition, Lucy has major new
chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing
throughout the day, reading/writing relationships,
publication, curriculum development, nonfiction writing
and home/school connections