What You Know by Heart: How to Create Curriculum for Your Writing Workshop

Ray (language arts education, W. Carolina U.) explores ways in which writing teachers can use their own experiences with writing to develop explicit curriculum for use in their teaching. She also examines ways for writing teachers to move from their own experiences in reading different kinds of texts to generate curriculum showing students how to write those kinds of texts. Several appendices cite written works that writing teachers can use to show students different writing possibilities and mechanisms. For experienced writing teachers and teacher-trainees. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

After leaving Western Carolina University where she was an Associate Professor of language arts education for eight years, Dr. KATIE RAY is now a full time writer and researcher of the teaching of writing. With a particular focus on the study of writing craft, she leads teacher workshops and summer institutes across the nation related to the teaching of writing. Her professional background includes both elementary and middle school teaching experience and two years as a staff developer at The Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University. Katie is also the author or co-author of four books on the teaching of writing: Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in the Whole Language Classrooms (1996, NCTE)