Make a fresh start : Consider your roots -- Learn from the children -- Why would anyone ever want to write? -- Day one: help children to write and keep writing -- Understand children when they write -- Expect more of your writers -- Establish the essentials for child responsibility : Conditions for effective writing -- Begin to organize your classroom -- Help children to share their writing -- Evaluate your own classroom -- Experiment with portfolios -- Teach the fundamentals of writing : Help children learn conventions -- Help children to read their own work -- Help children to revise their work -- How to keep handwriting in perspective -- Spell to communicate -- Answers to frequent questions ask about teaching writing -- Broaden the children's repertoire for writing : Help children read and write fiction -- Show children how to write nonfiction -- Uncover the world through poetry -- Continue to learn with others : Work with parents and administrators -- Live the professional life.
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