Step into a classroom and “listen in” on the writing initiatives and motivations of students who are given significant choice and agency in the development

In this practical, engaging book, former elementary school teacher and university professor Brian Kissel asks teachers to go back to the roots of writing worksh

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"Writing allows each of us to live with that special wide-awakeness that comes from knowing that our lives and our ideas are worth writing about." -Lucy Calkins