Casework in K-6 Writing Instruction

Contents: Mary Huffstetter: Creating Illustrations and Text during Writing Workshop (Kindergarten) - Susan V. Bennett/AnnMarie Alberton Gunn: Exploring Identity through Word Choice: Using Multicultural Literature to Create Connections (Kindergarten) - Susan Constable: Not Your Grandmother's Writing Lesson: Teaching Concepts and Conventions through Digital Interactive Writing (First Grade) - Kathleen M. Alley: Using Mentor Texts to Write Personal Narrative Small Moment Stories (First Grade) - Susan Torpey: Graphic Organizer or Fill-in-the-Blank Exercise: Teaching Expository Text Structures Using Fictional Characters (First Grade) - Jacqueline Hickey/Susan Constable: Telling Our Stories: Blogging with Primary English Language Learners (First Grade) - Vanessa Minick: Three Reasons Why: Teaching Writing through Repetitive Text Structures (Second Grade) - Melinda McConnaughhay Adams: There's no electricity in Cracker Country: Writing from Experience (Second Grade) - Carrie Blosser Scheckelhoff: I HATE writing!: The Role of Applied Phonics and Teacher Conferences in Composition (Second Grade) - Audra K. Parker/James L. Welsh: Too Many Traits, Too Much Time: Trying to Teach Writing with Technology (Third Grade) - Margaret B. Krause/Aimee Frier/Rebecca Lovering Powell: A Mexican Party in the Sky: Glitches in Composing with Digital Media and Disciplinary Content (Third Grade) - Mary Virginia Feger: The Writing Runaround: Using Explicit Instruction to Teach Ideas and Organization through Modeled Writing (Fourth Grade) - Steven Hart: This isn't what we normally do: Test Preparation and the Teaching of Writing (Fourth Grade) - Ruth Sylvester: Honey, what does that mean?: Conferencing with a Struggling Writer (Fourth Grade) - Coleen Daniels: Hot and Spicy Words: Motivating Writing and Vocabulary Development (Fifth Grade) - Patriann Smith/Aimee Frier/Jenifer Jasinski Schneider: Negotiating American History: Bilingual Learners Collaboratively Compose Information Texts (Fifth Grade) - Matthew U. Blankenship/Erin E. Margarella/Jenna Thomas/Amber Holmberg/Jenifer Jasinski Schneider: Cloudy or Cumulus: Collaborative Composition and Storyboarding to Produce Print and Digital Science Texts (Fifth Grade) - Stephanie M. Bennett: The Rights to Write: How the Constitutional Convention Helped Students Compose (Sixth Grade) - Deborah Kozdras: Getting a Clue: Textual Toys and Shifting Designs for Digital Composition (Sixth Grade).