Product Details

• Author: Joanne Hindley
• Year: 1996
• Grade Range: K-4

• Media: 208 pp/paper/full-color insert
• ISBN: 978-157110-010-8
• Item No.: WEB-0010

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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Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
1. Supportive Settings and Caring Communities
Part One: The Writing Workshop / 2. The Writer’s Notebook: Not Just for Kids
3. Mini-Lessons: A Time for Rigorous Whole-Class Instruction
4. Lifting the Quality of Student Writing
5. Conferring Toward Published Writing
6. The Power of Picture Books: A Whole-Class Genre Study
7. The Potential of Notebooks for Younger Writers
Part Two: The Reading Workshop
8. The Reading Workshop: What It Looks Like and Why
9. Mini-Lessons: Taking Our Cues from Children
10. Learning from Our Conferring and Record-Keeping
11. Responding to Literature: Getting Beyond “I Liked the Book”
12. Inviting Students and Parents in on Assessment
Epilogue: Telling Our Stories
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Bibliographies

Joanne Hindley
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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