15 ready-to-use mini-lessons introduce students to techniques and literary elements they can use to craft their own writing. On the companion website, the author explains how writers work with both…

This poignant tale of a woman residing in a nursing home who seems to live more in a world of memories than in the present gives voice to an often…

A gentle portrayal of a young boy’s relationship to his beekeeper aunt and their life together on a small farm. When he learns that the bees are preparing to look…

In Writers Are Readers, the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of flipsides; how a reader’s insights can be turned around to provide…

While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers really do is engage in a…