Writing to Go!

In the fall of 2005 WMWP began a venture with the Springfield Republican sharing teacher ideas and student work as WMWP teachers do whenever we get together. That has been so well received that we decided to take a small slice of this kind of sharing and put it together in a book. Writing to Go! edited by Mary-Ann DeVita Palmieri and Joanne Wisniewski, will introduce you to thirteen WMWP kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade teachers, each of whom shares with a favorite lesson or activity and some examples of student writing that were generated by these lessons.

View two sample pages from Writing to Go!

Contents:

Survival Stories by Sherril Willis
Reconstituted Stories from Key Words by Michael Silverstone
Choices Research Project by Joanne Wisniewski
I Have a Dream Poems by Wilma Ortiz
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do by Jack Czajkowski
Personal Connections Research by Pamela Howes
Limericks: A Fun Lesson for Teaching Rhyming, Rhythm, and Homophones by Kathleen Boissonneault
Fable Project by Leif Riddington
The Painted Essay by Andrea Griswold
Power, Justice, and Human Rights by Dawn Fontaine
Newspaper Project on Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck by Kathy Mouneimneh
Creative Writing as a Tool for Understanding by Bruce M. Penniman
Photograph Assignment by Joseph Calabrese

To purchase a copy of Writing to Go! send a check for $10 (which includes $2 for postage and handling) payable to the University of Massachusetts to the following address:

Western Massachusetts Writing Project
258 Bartlett Hall
University of Massachusetts
130 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9269