Practical, fun activities and ideas to give your students IMMEDIATE SUCCESS WITH WRITING!
Teaching Reading: A Differentiated Approach
But How Do You Teach Writing?
A Simple Guide for All Teachers
Grades K–12
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Barry Lane

Here is authentic writing instruction that taps into the heart and soul of teachers and their students to honor self-expression and thinking. Three sections include easy ideas to get you started, inspired teaching across genres, and advice for assessment and teaching revision, grammar, and punctuation. In every chapter you’ll find ready-to-use lessons and real "Yeah, but" questions and answers collected from teachers around the country.

You’ll find over 50 classroom-proven activities, including 21 forms for keeping track of your writer’s workshop, a 12-month calendar of writing workshop ideas, a Quick Reference Index for answers to common questions, suggestions for mini-lessons, cartoons, photos, reproducible writing forms, and checklists.

Ideas on how to:

  • Foster better writing to prompts for assessments (See "You Don’t Fatten a Pig by Weighin’ It, Do You?")
  • Teach a love for revision
  • Bring life to nonfiction writing
  • Unlock the riches of writing workshop, even if you have to steal 5 minutes to do it
  • Teach skills in a fun context (See "Grammar Got Run Over by a Reindeer.")
Barry Lane’s aim in this book is to inspire teachers of writing as much as teach us, to encourage as much as show how. The man delivers. His humanity—his humor, curiosity, openness to learning from every experience, and generosity of spirit—are gifts to the profession. In his inimitable voice he offers smart solutions to teaching problems, and as a writer he practices what he preaches: he leads us to understandings through a wealth of stories from his life as a student and teacher.
— Nancie Atwell
Center for Teaching and Learning, Edgecomb, Maine,
Author of In the Middle and Lessons That Change Writers
Barry uses his passion, excitement, and innovative ideas about writing to engage teachers and students in the writing process. Barry’s book is a must for teachers who want to impart a passion for writing to their students.
— Jim Burke
English teacher at Burlingame High School, CA,
Author of The English Teacher's Companion
Barry Lane shares big framing ideas and a plethora of daily activities that will engage students in the work–and the absolute fun and joy–of real writing. Being helped to greater competence, wisdom, and grace should always be this much fun.
—Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Boise State University,
Author of Engaging Readers & Writers With Inquiry and
Getting It Right
Barry’s book delivers a lively and compelling antidote to standards-driven, scripted writing programs that promise improvement but ultimately fail, because they ignore the basic truth that writing is an art that must be skillfully nurtured in every student by teachers who are inspired and equipped to deliver the best in craft lessons.
— Paul Weill
Curriculum Coordinator,
Springfield Public Schools, Springfield Oregon
Barry Lane shows teachers how to demystify the writing process and have a good time on the way. Lane’s work has renewed and refreshed the challenging job of teaching revision.
— Ruth Culham
Author of 6+1 Traits of Writing
Barry uses his passion, excitement, and innovative ideas about writing to engage teachers and students in the writing process. Barry’s book is a must for teachers who want to impart a passion for writing to their students.
— Todd Kraai
Principal, New Era Elementary School,
Michigan

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