Building a Community of Writers will show you how to make your students' initial writing experience meaningful. Through scripted and developmentally appropriate mini-lessons, you can empower children to express themselves fluently and independently. Use the Writer's Workshop teaching techniques described in this resource to teach your students to view themselves as writers from the very beginning. Building a Community of Writers provides the following:

• Scripted mini-lessons that model good writing
• Activities that model how writers develop ideas and generate text
• Standards-based language and literacy practice
• Methods for conferencing, assessing, and sharing children's writing
• Letters to inform parents of what children have been learning
• Reproducible pages to help parents reinforce classroom learning

As educators, we have always told writers to write for a particular audience. Building a Community of Writers makes it easy for you to build an audience of classmates, school friends, and parents that gives children the encouragement and direction they need in order to develop as writers.