Writer to writer : 7 community-building workshops for teaching language arts (grades 6-12) / Sarah J. Donovan and Jenn Yong Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donovan, Sarah J., 1973- author.

Sanders, Jenn Yong, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts--Curricula.

Language arts.

Teachers' workshops.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press ; Berkeley, CA : National Writing Project, [2026]

Summary:

The guided workshops depicted in this book offer seven, ready-to-implement instructional units that walk secondary language arts teachers through practical, day-one engagements to get writers collaborating and connecting with one another. By focusing on texts from a writer's point of view, Writer to Writer offers a fresh vision for teaching language arts that dramatically increases engagement by centering student lives, voices, and peer relationships. Grounded in a workshop model, this book blends theory and practice to show how writing and reading can be humanizing, relational, and responsive for adolescent learners. Across seven genre-based workshops that include place-based poetry, narrative, speculative fantasy, novel study, literary analysis, and argumentative writing, readers will find practical routines, mentor text studies, conferring strategies, low-stakes daily writing invitations, and author's craft lessons. This culturally sustaining instruction fosters student agency and engagement while ensuring robust alignment with academic standards and assessment demands in ethical, relational ways. New and experienced teachers will find inspiration, concrete tools, and renewed purpose in this curriculum designed to reduce planning time and resist burnout, allowing you to reclaim the joy of teaching ELA. -- provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Workshop 1: writers' notebooks

Workshop 2: building connections through critical place poetry

Workshop 3: exploring our journeys in personal narrative writing

Workshop 4: Fantasy writing

creating speculative futures

Workshop 5: reading like a novelist

Workshop 6: becoming literary critics

Workshop 7: nurturing critical conversation as argumentative writing

Epilogues: don't you ove your curriculum now?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.

ISBN:

9780807784136

0807784133

9780807783559

0807783552

9780807784143

0807784141

OCLC:

1564572933