Freeman, Marcia S. :

Marcia Freeman is an author and writing-education consultant specializing in the practical aspects of creating a classroom writing community. She is the author of Non-fiction Writing Strategies, Building a Writing Community, Teaching the Youngest Writers, Listen to This, Catfish and Spaghetti, and 20 non-fiction readers for emergent readers published by Rand McNally, Newbridge, and Capstone.

Writing Education Workshops

Marcia's lively and comprehensive writing-education workshops focus on teaching the content of writing. They give K-12 teachers practical, classroom-proven tools for creating and managing a classroom writing community. Her topics include writing lessons in the narrative and expository genres, and practical procedures and models for implementing and managing writing in the classroom: prewriting, drafting, response, revision, editing, publishing, mini-lessons, assessment, portfolios, and record-keeping.

Hear Marcia at the Southwest IRA Conference in Albuquerque, NM (Jan. 31-Feb. 3). Her Featured Speaker session on Thursday, February 1st is titled "Authoring Nonfiction For Primary Students."

"...highly informative and readable book...if you're looking for how-to guidance or some fresh ideas, pick up Marcia Freeman's excellent resource."

-- Instructor Magazine

Maupin House Web Site, October, 2000

New and experienced teachers appreciate this easy-to-use yet comprehensive approach to teaching young writers style and genre characteristics, composing skills, conventions, and the writing process itself. The classroom-tested techniques satisfy young writers' need for structure and content while offering them freedom to develop their style, repertoire and voice. More than 350 classroom-tested models, lessons, procedures and activities and 37 reproducibles. If you want to create a community of writers who love to write and speak the language of writers, you'll love this book. Bonus! Fold-out "Skills Development Chart" helps your school integrate writing process teaching in grades K-6.

Acknowledgments
Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Writing Process Classroom
Chapter 3. Prewriting
Chapter 4. Drafting
Chapter 5. Response
Chapter 6. Revision
Chapter 7. Editing
Chapter 8. Publishing
Chapter 9. Writing Content
Chapter 10. Narrative Writing
Chapter 11. (Part 1) Expository Writing
Chapter 12. Persuasive Writing
Chapter 13. Poetry
Chapter 14. Evaluation, Assessment, and Portfolios
Chapter 15. Meeting Common Challenges

Appendix
Reproducible
About the Author
Scope and Sequence Fold-Out Chart