Resources for Writing Instruction

After "The End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision
Barry Lane
The Art of Teaching Writing
Lucy McCormick Calkins
Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test:
Four Steps to Better Scores for Teachers of All Levels -- Jane Bell Kiester
Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8
Ralph Fletcher, Joann Portalupi
Creating Writers Through 6-Trait Writing Assessment and Instruction
Vicki Spandel
For the Good of the Earth and Sun: Teaching Poetry
Georgia Heard
A Fresh Approach to Teaching Punctuation:
Helping Young Writers Use Conventions With Precision and Purpose -- Janet Angelillo, Lucy McCormick Calkins
A Fresh Look at Writing
Donald H. Graves
Gnys at Wrk: A Child Learns to Write and Read
Glenda L. Bissex
Grammar Lessons and Strategies That Strengthen Students’ Writing (Grades 4-8)
Laura Robb
Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy
Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
How’s It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers
Carl Anderson
In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning
Nancie Atwell
Interactive Writing: How Language & Literacy Come Together, K-2
Andrea McCarrier, Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas
Language Arts: Pattern and Practice
Gail E. Tompkins
Lessons from a Child: On the Teaching and Learning of Writing
Lucy McCormick Calkins
Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach
Gail E. Tompkins
Living Between the Lines
Lucy McCormick Calkins, Shelley Harwayne
Nonfiction Craft Lesson: Teaching Information Writing K-8
Joann Portalupi, Ralph J. Fletcher

Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
Ralph J. Fletcher
Ready-to-Go Writing Lessons That Teach Key Strategies (Grades 4-8)
Patricia Tabb, Nancy Delano Moore
The Reviser’s Toolbox
Barry Lane
The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work
Georgia Heard
Seeking Diversity: Language Arts With Adolescents
Linda Rief
Six Traits Writing Songs and Reading Comprehension Strategy Songs

Miles and Tanny McGregor
Step-By-Step Strategies for Teaching Expository Writing
Barbara Mariconda, Judy Lynch
Teaching Elaboration and Word Choice
Leann Nickelsen
Teaching Powerful Writing: 25 Short Read-Aloud Stories With Lessons That Motivate Students to Use Literary Elements in Their Writing
Bob Sizoo
Teaching Writing Balancing Process and Product
Gail E. Tompkins
Teaching Writing With Picture Books as Models (Grades 4-8)
Rosanne Jurstedt, Maria Koutras
Vision & Voice: Extending the Literacy Spectrum
Linda Rief
Understanding Writing Ways of Observing, Learning, and Teaching, K-8
Thomas Newkirk, Nancie Atwell
What a Writer Needs
Ralph Fletcher, Donald M. Murray
Why We Must Run With Scissors: Voice Lesson in Persuasive Writing
Barry Lane, Gretchen Bernabei
And With a Light Touch: Learning About Reading, Writing, and Teaching With First Graders
Carol Avery, Donald Graves
Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
Katie Wood Ray
Writing Through Childhood: Rethinking Process and Product
Shelley Harwayne
Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way
Georgia Heard
The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They’re All Hard Parts)
Katie Wood Ray with Lester L. Laminack
The Writing Workshop: A World of Difference: A Guide for Staff Development
Lucy McCormick Calkins, Shelley Harwayne
Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide
Ralph J. Fletcher, Joann Portalupi
You Kan Red This!: Spelling and Punctuation for Whole Language Classrooms, K-6
Sandra Wilde
6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide (Grades 3 and Up)
Ruth Culham
10 Easy Writing Lessons That Get Kids Ready for Writing Assessments Proven Ways to Raise Your Students’ Scores on the State Performance Assessments in Writing
Mary Rose
25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing (Grades 3-6)
Adele Fiderer
50 Writing Lessons That Work! (Grades 4-8)
Carol Rawlings Miller