"Grades K-5" - Front cover and Title page.

"This book will be a foundational text for teaching writing. The authors will share what teachers need and what steps they should take to plan and execute writing lessons. They will answer two big questions for teachers: What kinds of lessons do I teach? How do I teach them?"--

"In Lisa Cleaveland's classroom, writing workshop is a time every day when her students make books. Katie Wood Ray guides you through the first days in Lisa's classroom, offering ideas, information, strategies, and tips to show you step by step how you can launch a writing workshop with beginning writers."--book cover

"A getting-started primer for teachers conferring with writers in the K-8 classroom" --

Presents tips for elementary and middle school teachers on how to use writing notebooks to help students develop skills and habits associated with good writing.

Offers advice to teachers on how to conduct writing workshops, providing a rationale for writing workshops, looking at what they have in common across grade levels, and discussing the tone of workshop teaching, getting started with independent writing time, curriculum, focus lessons, assessment and evaluation, and other topics.

In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work.