Topic: Katie Wood Ray

Young children love to learn and use new words. How do we tap into this natural curiosity and excitement to support vocabulary development?

Learn about modeling learning through instruction, tips for integrating interactive writing strategies throughout the day, and honoring students’ processes.

A fresh look at foundational, student-centered practices for pre-service and veteran teachers.

Young children love to learn and use new words. How do we tap into this natural curiosity and excitement to support vocabulary development?

How can we create daily structures and routines that support writers?

What makes for a good writing workshop? The answer is less complicated than you might think.

When students have lots of choices about what they will write about and how they will write it, there are many benefits.

Today on the podcast, author and editor Katie Wood Ray sits down with Matt Glover to discuss his latest book Craft and Process Studies: Units that Provide Writers with Choice of Genre.

This week on the Heinemann Podcast, Katherine Bomer speaks about her development as a writer and educator.

Katie Wood Ray interviews Carl Anderson and Jenifer Serravallo, who both recently published two conferring books in Heinemann’s Classroom Essentials Series.

Some children, no doubt, are just naturally reflective. I don’t doubt that much of Lucas’ thoughtfulness about his work was just part of who he is. But all children— and adults for that matter—can be taught to be more reflective.

Getting Started with Beginning Writers is not a script you can follow, of course. But regardless of the children sitting in front of you, and regardless of whether it's the beginning of the year or sometime later, there are very specific big ideas and beliefs that can guide your practice.

Learning never occurs in a straight line. Lisa Cleaveland and Katie Wood Ray, co-authors of Getting Started with Beginning Writers, know that this is especially true when it comes to learning to write.

What does it mean to be a writer? And how do we establish routines for our beginning writers? Today on The Heinemann Podcast, co-authors Katie Wood Ray and Lisa Cleaveland on their new book: A Teacher’s Guide to Getting Started with Beginning Writers.

Before you get started on your journey of making books in writing workshop, there are a few things you need to know about the practice.

If you’re an experienced workshop teacher, the book will help you imagine new possibilities for getting started. If you’ve ever longed for beginning writers to show more independence during units of study across the year, then this book is for you.

We're excited to announce that pre-publication sample chapters are now available for the first two books in the Classroom Essential Series, A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences by Carl Anderson and A Teacher’s Guide to Getting Started with Beginning Readers by Katie Wood Ray with Lisa Cleaveland.

Today wrapped up the fifth and final week of Jennifer Serravallo's Summer Writing Camp−how time flies! This week was all about independent writing projects.