Product Description

Calkins has woven insights, practical suggestions, references, and anecdotes into this inspirational story of a community of educators who have pushed back the frontiers of what we know about teaching writing and reading.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89803 in Books
• Published on: 1990-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

About the Author
Shelley Harwayne was affiliated with the New York City public schools for more than thirty years as a teacher, staff developer, codirector of the Teachers College Writing Project, founding principal of the Manhattan New School, and superintendent of District #2 in New York City. She has worked as a consultant and keynote speaker throughout the world and has published numerous books and videos with Heinemann including Learning to Confer (2004), Writing Through Childhood (2001), Lifetime Guarantees (2000), Going Public (1999), Lasting Impressions (1992), Living Between the Lines (1990), and The Writing Workshop: a World of Difference (1987). In addition, Shelley has published two children's books: Jewels and What's Cooking?.

Lucy Calkins is the author of the popular firsthand classroom materials Units of Study for Primary Writing and Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3 - 5, as well as the companion DVD Big Lessons from Small Writers.In addition, Lucy is the author of numerous foundational professional texts with Heinemann, including The Art of Teaching Writing and One to One. She is also the author of The Art of Teaching Reading.She is the Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University's Teachers College. For more than twenty-five years, the Project has been both a think tank - developing state of the art teaching methods - and a provider of professional development. In these capacities, the Project has supported hundreds of thousands of educators. As the leader of this world renowned organization, Lucy works closely with policy-makers, superintendents, district leaders and school principals to instigate and sustain school-wide and s

Customer Reviews

Expands the possibilities of writing workshops
Living Between the Lines is a great book for people who have some experience using writing workshops in their classrooms and are looking for ways to help students find interesting and meaningful topics for writing. Calkins' explains her use of notebooks to get students to become more aware of their surroundings and more sensitive to the importance of daily events. She includes great questions to use when having students review their notebooks. Although the students in the book are elementary children, the questions and activities are helpful for my high school classes. If you have read her earlier book, The Art of Teaching Writing, you will notice that she indicates dissatisfaction with some of the ideas from that book. It's interesting to see how her thinking has evolved. If you've done much work with writing workshops, your thinking has probably been evolving too. This book will help you refine your workshop practices and lead you to keep thinking of ways to keep your students growing as writers and individuals.