Growing Up Writing Mini-Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers

This invaluable resource helps, you develop an organized writing curriculum based on explicit instruction. Fifty-nine mini-lessons let you customize the power of writer's workshop so you can meet the standards-based needs of your emergent writers. An effective tool in balanced literacy assessments, this supplemental resource builds students' writing skills within these four developmental stages: - Operational Mini-Lessons focus on managing processes, materials, and classroom spaces.- Foundational Mini-Lessons cover the content of your students' writing.- Print Awareness Mini-Lessons deal with mechanics and the connection between reading and writing.- Craft Mini-Lessons address the skills your kindergartners need to add description, elaboration, and detail to their writing.Dierking, Connie Campbell is the author of 'Growing Up Writing Mini-Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers' with ISBN 9780929895710 and ISBN 0929895711.