Catch a Falling Writer

Designed to provide educators with strategies for "catching" struggling primary grade writers (K-3) before a learning gap develops for these children, this book is relevant for preparing young students to meet the growing demands of writing in the upper grades. With many children entering school with limited language skills, vocabulary, fine-motor skills, grammar, proper diction, correct pencil grip, and letter/sound knowledge, educators face the challenge of finding specific strategies and ideas that work for young writers. Predominant literature focuses a great deal of attention on reading instruction while ignoring the power of writing instruction and its relationship to reading. Catch a Falling Writer helps classroom teachers, reading specialists, special education teachers, literacy coaches and student teachers strengthen this powerful connection and shed light on falling writers before feelings of frustration, defeat, and incompetence take root. Teachers will also find this resource an ideal companion book for the author's Catch a Falling Reader .