Writing Like Writers: Guiding Elementary Children through a Writer's Workshop
Pamela V. Westkott has been teaching third grade most of her teaching career. She lives with her husband and teaches in a suburban Rhode Island seaside town. Her three grown sons live and work in the area. Westkott enjoys teaching, reading, gardening, hiking, and traveling.Kathryn L. Johnson lives in the small rural village of Kingston, RI, with her husband, Paul de Mesquita, and two sons, Jacob and Cliff. Currently, she teaches Language Arts Methods and supervises student teachers at the University of Rhode Island. With a lifelong passion for literature and the written word, Johnson is a calligrapher, bookbinder, and creator of original, one-of-a-kind books. Her other interests include traveling, bicycling, camping and hiking, and playing music.