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Joanne Hindley
Year: 1996
Foreword by Shelley Harwayne
Media: 208 pp/paper/full-color insert
ISBN: 978-157110-010-8
Grade Range: K-3
Item No.: WMW-0010
Price: $21.00
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Table of Contents | About the Author(s) | Reviews
In schools of every description, teachers are working to turn their classrooms into reading-writing workshops. They're filling bookcases with the best of childrens literature, and students are tucking writers' notebooks into their bulging backpacks. This new look calls for meaningful change in teaching practice, but many questions about implementing literacy workshops remain. In this clear and practical book, Joanne Hindley takes a hard look at how to make every minute count and offers specific suggestions for creating rigorous, efficient, and successful reading and writing workshops. Grounding her story in the lives of her third graders, Joanne tackles difficult issues and offers thoughtful direction and ideas you will appreciate:
- how to manage a productive workshop setting in a crowded classroom;
- how to launch writer's notebooks with your students;
- how the study of one genre can help you manage the reading/writing workshop;
- where to get ideas for mini-lessons for the reading/writing workshop;
- guidelines to help you improve your conferring with individual readers and writers;
- how to assess student progress in a process-oriented classroom.
In the Company of Children is a treasure trove of fresh ideas and strategies that teachers—in service and preservice—will draw on and adapt for their own classrooms.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Supportive Settings and Caring Communities
PART ONE: The Writing Workshop
Chapter 2: The Writer39;s Notebook: Not Just for Kids
Chapter 3: Mini-Lessons: A Time for Rigorous Whole-Class Instruction
Chapter 4: Lifting the Quality of Student Writing
Chapter 5: Conferring Toward Published Writing
Chapter 6: The Power of Picture Books: A Whole-Class Genre Study
Chapter 7: The Potential of Notebooks for Younger Writers
PART TWO: The Reading Workshop
Chapter 8: The Reading Workshop: What It Looks Like and Why
Chapter 9: Mini-Lessons: Taking Our Cues from Children
Chapter 10: Learning from Our Conferring and Record-Keeping
Chapter 11: Responding to Literature: Getting Beyond “I Liked the Book”
Chapter 12: Inviting Students and Parents in on Assessment
Epilogue: Telling Our Stories
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Bibliographies
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About the Author(s)
Joanne Hindley, one of the founding members of the Manhattan New School, spends her long school days teaching children and teaching teachers.
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Reviews
Harvard Education - Summer 1997
"What makes this book powerful is that it is Joanne Hindley's story -- an honest portrait of how one teacher continues to evolve as a teacher and learner. I recommend it to educators of diverse interests and backgrounds." Harvard Education, 1997 Instructor - November/December 1996
"A terrific guide to writing and reading workshops." Instructor, Nov/Dec 1996 Learning - April 1997
"Whether you're a beginner or an old pro at using reading and writing workshops, In the Company of Children by Joanne Hindley is a book you should add to your collection." Learning, April 1997
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