Baldwin, Neil.
The Poetry Writing Handbook
. New York: Scholastic, 1981.
A how-to book for introducing students to poetry and helping them write poetry. A valuable classroom resource.
Caulkins, Lucy McCormick.
The Art of Teaching Writing
. Portsmouth: Heinemann Educational Books, 1986.
Describes the writing process and how to go about improving the writing skills of students of all ages. This book is a valuable resource and guide.
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Lessons From a Child
. Portsmouth: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983.
A description of the author’s work with second and third grade writers.
Elbow, Peter.
Writing With Power
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
A guide to more powerful writing for writers of all ages. Many techniques are applicable to the classroom.
Giovanni, Nikki.
Spin a Soft Black Song
. New York: Hill and Wang, 1971.
Poems about children, for children.
Salzman, Mark.
Iron and Silk
. New York: Vintage Books, 1987.
Memoirs of the author’s two years in China as a Teacher of English and student of martial arts.
Welty, Eudora.
One Writer’s Beginnings
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi in the early twentieth century and the events that led Eudora Welty to becoming a Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Wideman, John Edgar.
Brothers and Keepers
. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
The author’s effort to understand why he became a Rhodes Scholar and award winning novelist while his younger brother wound up sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a man during a robbery.
Ziegler, Alan.
The Writing Workshop
. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1981.
More on the writing process. A valuable resource for teachers of students in junior high school and up.
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The Writing Workshop Vol. 2
. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1984.
The companion idea book for
The Writing Workshop
. Offers many ideas for encouraging writing.