Getting the Most Out of Morning Message and Other Shared Writing Lessons

by C.D. Payne, Mary Browning Schulman

This comprehensive guide to shared writing is filled with strategies for writing collaboratively with emergent writers. Explains the link between shared writing and independent writing, offers ideas for collaborative writing with children across the curriculum, provides assessment forms and classroom examples to help you know where students are in their writing development.

Genres: Education

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Author and showman C.D. Payne was born in Akron, Ohio in 1949 (making him a contemporary of Richard Gere and Meryl Streep). He spent his early years in West Virginia and southern Ohio, moving back to Akron while still a mere tot.

He went to public schools in Akron, and then graduated from Harvard College, where he majored in history and participated in the annual spring riot. In 1971 he moved to California. During the next 25 years, he held over 50 jobs including newspaper editor, book publisher's assistant, proofreader, trailer park handyman, and catalog writer.

Since 2004 he has been the proprietor of the Eyelusion Museum, a mobile discovery museum in a restored and polished 1964 Airstream trailer. His latest mobile sideshow is a 1950s miniature town (shown below) called Zippy Town. It can been seen at the Santa Rosa Handcar Regatta and other events.

He is married and lives in Sonoma County.

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good description of shared writing and great examples to model after in my own classroom.

[Savannah Campbell]

Pretty outdated, but has some good ideas. If there was a second edition, I'd read it!