Chapter Summaries

Part One: Foundations

  1.  It's a Wonderful Life

  2.  This I Believe

  3.  How Writing Units Work Together: A Scaffold of Writing Instruction

Part Two: Collecting Thinking

  4.  The Writer's Notebook

  5.  Quick Writes

Part Three: Writer's Workshop

  6.  The Opportunities in a Writer's Workshop

Part Four:  Thinking Through Genre

   7.  The Art of Story

   8.  The Part of Persuasion

   9.  Seeking Balance: Writing About Literature and Writing About Life

   10.  Finding Form for Ideas: Blending Genres

Part Five:  Mechanics

   11.  Grammar, Punctuation, and What Keeps Me Up at Night

Part Six:  Assessment

  12.  Leading Students to Reflection and Independence

  13.  In the End, What Writing Is For . . .