Raising Writers: Understanding and Nurturing Young Children's Writing Development
 Ruth ShagouryRaising Writers: Understanding and Nurturing Young Children's Writing Development, 1/e Join children’s writing enthusiast Ruth Shagoury for an exploration of how primary educators can nurture connections between oral and pictorial communication and writing skills at every stage of development. This much-needed resource focuses on helping young learners make that transition from spoken to written language. Its strong research base and attention to developmental stages gives early childhood specialists the very best background to build an effective program in today’s multicultural classrooms. Ruth also provides work samples and photos, recommendations for further reading, a book club study guide for readers, and a wealth of resources for extending student learning beyond the classroom. When you build early writing skills with these expert steps, you build literacy for a lifetime! “The author has a lot of experience with this age of student.  I would love to see [this book] in the hands of all kindergarten classroom teachers in my building so that they all would have a common understanding of the beginning writing process.”  –Carla Chavez, reading specialist, Prairie Park Elementary, Lawrence, Kansas “Ruth is an accomplished educator and scholar and it shows. The book’s strength is the number and quality of student writing samples and detailed commentary on them.”  –Kathryn Egawa, National Council of Teachers of English Associate Executive Director, 1999-2005 Ruth Shagouryteaches new and veteran teachers at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and books, includingStarting with Comprehension(Stenhouse Publishers). A regular contributor to www.ChoiceLiteracy.com, she cannot imagine anything more fascinating than studying and celebrating children and adolescents as they grow as writers and readers.