A resource for people passionate about helping students write well, compiled by Karen Haag

Nancy Atwell – Website

• In The Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning, 1998, Boynton/Cook.
• Lessons That Change Writers, FirstHand, 2002.

Carol Avery – Website

• And With a Light Touch: Learning About Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders, Heinemann, 2002

Donald Daiker

• "Learning to Praise," Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research, ed., Chris M. Anson (Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989): 105.

Peter Elbow – Website

• Writing Without Teachers, Oxford University Press, 1973

Donald Graves – Website

• A Fresh Look at Writing, Heinemann, 1994
• Writing: Teachers and Children at Work, Heinemann, 2004

Donald Murray – Website

• A Writer Teaches Writing, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1990
• The Craft of Revision, Harcourt Brace, 1998

Katie Wood Ray – Website

• Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom, National Council of the Teachers of English, 1999.
• What You Know By Heart: How to Develop Curriculum for Your Writing Workshop, Heinemann, 2002.
• The Writing Workshop: Working Though the Hard Parts (And They’re All Hard Parts), with Lester Laminack, National Council of the Teachers of English, 2001.

Make gains with conferences

Students improved a year in writing in half a year in my classes as a result of implementing a conference routine.