With this shift in focus appeared a new concept in the writing literature entitled Writing Workshop. As I argued elsewhere, Writing workshop as an approach to teaching writing has been around for more than 30 years now, exactly since the publication of "The Art of Teaching Writing" by Lucy Calkins and "In The Middle" by Nancie Atwell.
Other proponents of this approach include celebrated scholars such as Donald Murray, Donald Graves, Katie Wood Ray, Jim burke, Ralph Fetcher, Penny Kittle to mention a few. Writing workshop provides a pedagogically useful model for teaching writing. The main emphasis of this approach is on "teaching the writer then the writing".
The purpose of today’s post is to introduce you to some excellent books on teaching writing. The purpose is to help enrich your pedagogical and theoretical knowledge on the topic of teaching writing. I invite you to check out the list and share with us if you have other suggestions to add.