A Plan for Teaching Writing: Grades K-12, Audio Workshop (Downloadable MP3)

Listen to Susan Wise Bauer’s overall plan for producing good writers at home. This workshop explains how to guide your student through a simple progression (copywork, dictation, narration, summarizing, outlining, short critical essays, long critical essays, research paper) that will develop both writing and thinking skills in a systematic manner. Particular focus on the elementary years and remedial work; includes suggestions on how to use these writing and thinking skills in every area of the curriculum.

Recommended for those teaching all K-6 students, as well as for those teaching older students who are reluctant writers.

You will find the accompanying visual material referenced in this Audio Workshop here.

This workshop gives an overall summary of writing goals and methods for K-12. For a more detailed examination, with focus on specific stages in the process of teaching writing, also see:

Writing: Focus on the Elementary Grades

Writing: Focus on the Middle Grades

Writing: Focus on High School