{"product_id":"the-writing-workshop-working-through-the-hard-parts-and-theyre-all-hard-parts-9780814113172","title":"The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis seminal book is a practical  comprehensive  and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.  In The Writing Workshop  Katie Wood Ray offers a practical  comprehensive  and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write  this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers really do is engage in a complex  multi-layered  slippery process to produce texts. The book confronts the challenge of this teaching head-on  with chapters on all aspects of the writing workshop  including: day-to-day instruction (e.g.  lesson planning  conferring  assessment and evaluation  share time  focus lessons  and independent writing); classroom management (e.g.  pacing and scheduling  managing the predictable distractions  and understanding the slightly out-of-hand feeling of the workshop); and intangibles (e.g.  the development of writing identities and the tone of workshop teaching). The Writing Workshop is a book about being articulatebeing able to think through what we are doing as we are doing it so that we can improve our practice. Its a book to go back to when things are getting hard. A book that helps us think through  \"Now why was I doing this?\" Woven between the chapters on teaching are the voices of published writers  followed by short commentaries from Lester L. Laminack. These voices remind us how writers do what they do  thus lending authenticity to what Katie Wood Ray shows us in the classroom  and thoughtfully helping us frame our instruction to match the complex process of writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598694481973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814113176","price":20.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814113172.jpg?v=1790929729","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-writing-workshop-working-through-the-hard-parts-and-theyre-all-hard-parts-9780814113172","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}