Getting the Most Out of Your Morning Message

Want to put more teaching power into Morning Message? This comprehensive guide to shared writing is filled with strategies for writing collaboratively with emergent writers. Lots of teacher-student dialogues let you hear how these teacher-authors compose messages, stories, and letters with young writers, demonstrating important concepts about print, print conventions, writing forms, and other essentials of reading and writing. 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.