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.
Good resources about conferring
"In writing workshops, teachers invite children to do all the things a writer really does: research, explore, collect, interview, talk, read, stare off into space, co-author, and yes, prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and publish."
– The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts). Ray and Laminack, NCTE, 2001