Foreword by Cornelius Minor Letter from the Authors Introduction A Shared Story The Four Domains of Responsiveness The Structure of This Book Chapter 1: Collecting Information About the Writers in Your Classroom Chapter 2: Planning Responsive Instruction Chapter 3: Co-Constructing Responsive Charts Chapter 4: Selecting Responsive Mentor Texts Chapter 5: Providing Responsive Demonstration Texts Chapter 6: Empowering Students to Make Their Own Tools and Resources References
Insights and customizable templates help you adapt and create tools for student-centered writing instruction informed by four domains of responsivity: academic, linguistic, cultural, and social-emotional.
Melanie Meehan has been the Elementary Writing and Social Studies Coordinator in Simsbury, Connecticut, since 2012. Within that position, she writes curriculum, works with teachers, and strives to send students off into the world as confident writers who love to express their ideas. Melanie is a co-author of Two Writing Teachers, a blog dedicated to the teaching of writing, as well as a regular contributor to Choice and Lead Literacy. She wrote Every Child Can Write, which was published by Corwin Press in October 2019, and she co-authored The Responsive Writing Teacher with Kelsey Sorum, which was published in 2021. You can reach Melanie on Twitter, @MelanieMeehan1. Kelsey Sorum spends each day co-constructing joyful, integrated literacy experiences alongside nearly thirty kindergartners at a progressive public school in the Brooklyn neighborhood where she lives. Kelsey teaches in a classroom that uses the Integrated Co-Teaching model. Kelsey has shared personal and professional writing on blogs for three years. This is her first published book. Kelsey's work is featured in Kids First From Day 1, by Christine Hertz and Kristine Mraz, and Welcome to Writing Workshop, by Lynne Dorfman and Stacey Shubitz. Kelsey presents at local and national literacy conferences as an advocate for early childhood education.