WRITING IN TODAY'S CLASSROOMS GRADES K–5


Cultivating Young Multilingual Writers


Nurturing Voices and Stories in and beyond the Classroom Walls


Tracey T. Flores and María E. Fránquiz


This book is written for K–5 educators who are interested in cultivating young writers by designing and facilitating writing instruction that begins with the resources that students bring to the classrooms from their families, homes, and


communities. This kind of asset-based and individualized instruction is designed to meet the unique writing needs of each young writer. K–5 educators teaching in shifting contexts encounter an array of challenges daily, from restrictive language policies and mandates to heightened accountability measures that often dictate the design of their writing time and instruction. This book focuses on elementary school teachers working with young writers in varying educational contexts, including dual language, bilingual, and English Only contexts, and in particular students who come from culturally and linguistically diverse settings.


99 pp. | 2023 | ISBN 9780814101520 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814101537


GRADES 6–8


Writing Can Change Everything


Middle Level Kids Writing Themselves into the World Shelbie Witte, editor


Identifying writing as central to what makes us human, editor and teacher educator Shelbie Witte has gathered a diverse group of middle school teacher-writers to share their approaches to mentoring, modeling, and facilitating middle level writers as they explore their places within


our world. Early adolescents might be physically and emotionally in flux, but they are also multidimensional, multitalented creatures of curiosity, always pushing the boundaries of discovery and possibility.


The seven educators whose classrooms are showcased in this book lead their students toward the understanding that writing makes a difference, both in their own lives and in the broader world. Writing Can Change Everything invites all of us to consider how the principles outlined in NCTE’s Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement weave throughout the best practices on display as students write through creative self-expression, narrative, inquiry, and project-based learning.


118 pp. | 2020 | ISBN 9780814174876 $22.36 member/$27.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814100271


GRADES 9–12 Growing Writers


Principles for High School Writers and Their Teachers Anne Elrod Whitney


Anne Elrod Whitney explores how the principles defined in NCTE’s Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement can support high school writers and teachers of writing. Principles help us to better understand our teaching


purposes, make decisions about teaching, vet ideas supplied by others, and grow as teachers of writing. The book, part of the Writing in Today’s Classrooms strand of the Principles in Practice imprint, includes snapshots from high school teachers working in a variety of settings illustrating how their own classroom practice has helped both them and their students to grow.


151 pp. | 2021 | ISBN 9780814119174 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814100035


GRADES 9–12


Writing Instruction in the Culturally Relevant Classroom


Maisha T. Winn and Latrise Johnson


Winn and Johnson support an approach to writing instruction that can help all students succeed, and especially those who have been underserved in US classrooms. Through portraits of four high school teachers, they show how to


create an environment for effective learning and teaching in diverse classrooms, answering questions such as:


— How can I honor students’ backgrounds and experiences to help them become better writers?


— How can I teach in a culturally responsive way if I don’t share cultural identities with my students?


— How can I move beyond a “heroes and holidays” approach to culturally relevant pedagogy?


— How can I draw on what I already know about good writing instruction to make my classes more culturally relevant?


101 pp. | 2011 | ISBN 9780814158562 $19.96 member/$24.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814100004


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