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Matt Glover

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Part One
Ch. 1: Increasing Engagement Through Choice of Genre
Ch 2: Choice of Genre Through Craft and Process Studies
Ch. 3: Teaching in Craft and Process Studies

Part Two: The Units
Ch. 4: Launching Writing Workshop: Fostering Self-Direction
Ch. 5: Reading Like a Writer
Ch. 6: Using Strategies to Find Topics
Ch. 7: Finding and Developing Independent Writing Projects
Ch. 8: Launching the Use of a Writer's Notebook
Ch. 9: Independent Genre Study
Ch. 10: Planning
Ch. 11: How to Have Better Peer Conferences
Ch. 12: Revision
Ch. 13: Genre Overview
Ch. 14: Illustration Study
Ch. 15: Using Illustrations and Text to Create Meaning in the Upper Grades
Ch. 16: How to Make Paragraphing Decisions
Ch 17: General Craft Study
Ch. 18: Using Punctuation as a Crafting Tool
Ch. 19: Using Text Structures as Crafting Tools
Ch. 20: Author Study

"How do you ensure that children become engaged enthusiastic writers? Read Matt Glover's book Craft and Process Studies. Delightful to read and highly practical, it shows us how to teach writing so that children become and continue to be engaged while expanding their writing repertoire. It is the antidote to orthodoxy in the writers' workshop. Thoroughly illustrated with concrete examples and videos, it offers multiple versions of units as flexible frameworks inviting us to innovate responsively and purposefully."-Peter Johnston

"After reading Craft and Process Studies, teachers will walk away with a thousand ideas to help them 'genre bust.' That's my term! Matt's argument that students need significant periods of time to write outside of conventional genres is strong, rational, and compelling."-Ellin Oliver Keene

"In Craft and Process Studies, master teacher Matt Glover recovers a key, maybe the key, principle of writing instruction-choice. Too often, students are marched through genre units, often presented as distinct types, with little opportunity to write about what matters most to them. Genre becomes not a resource, but a constraint. A means becomes an end. Matt retains the idea of a units of study, focusing on processes and issues of craft that can apply to whatever genre the student might choose. In the best tradition of mentor texts, these units build insights inductively, by a careful study of what authors actually do. What's more-we get to see Matt in action, conducting conferences and mini lessons in over forty video clips."-Thomas Newkirk

"Matt has long been a passionate advocate for student choice, and in this book he shows teachers how to put choice at the center of all their planning and decision making. What a gift to be able to learn from Matt's years of experience doing this work in so many different classrooms. There's no question you will think so much more expansively about the teaching of writing after reading this book. If you've ever felt like your students were boxed-in by the narrow confines of genre study after genre study, you'll find so many possibilities for breaking out of that box and supporting student writers with smart, bold studies that lift the level of their work in genres they have chosen for themselves."-Katie Wood Ray

"Matt Glover's Craft and Process Studies is my new favorite book on the teaching of writing! Not only does Matt make a compelling-and essential-argument for including units of study in our writing curriculums that give students the opportunity to choose the genres in which they write, but he also shows us how to do this by detailing seventeen beautifully realized units of study on process and craft." -Carl Anderson

"Writing is a content area, and Matt's generous, joyous, crystal-clear, and thoughtful compendium of all things worth teaching about craft and process in addition to genres, will help teachers build a compelling and robust year of learning for young writers. Stunningly, if students could be in classrooms that follow his map for how such units could go, I believe that genre knowledge would take care of itself! After you read and underline every other sentence, as I did, you will want to meet with your colleagues immediately to begin planning your next writing study."-Katherine Bomer

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Introduction: A Personal Note The Big Chill

Chapter 1: My Beautiful Balloon
Chapter 2: Trouble in Writing Paradise
Chapter 3: Faulty Assumptions
Chapter 4: The Play Imperative
A Writing Greenbelt
Chapter 5: Greenbelt Writing
Chapter 6: The Slice of Life Challenge
Chapter 7: A Classroom Notebook
Chapter 8: Feral Writing
Chapter 9: I'm-Trying-to-Figure-This-Out-Writing
Chapter 10: The Reluctant Writer
Chapter 11: The Big Picture
Chapter 12: Ralph on Ralph: A Self-Interview

Some professional books aim to explain and instruct. Others challenge orthodoxies and hope to prompt readers to revise their thinking. In this book I hope to do both. In Part One, I stir the pot, create discomfort with established writing dogma, and suggest better alternatives. In Part Two, I introduce a new concept: greenbelt writing. We'll explore writing that is low-stakes, informal, student-centered. We'll see that it is an ideal place for students to:

* find their stride as writers

* experience the joy, pleasure, and passion of writing

* define/identify themselves as writers.

In the second half of the book, we'll look at various kinds of greenbelt writing, some sparked and structured by teachers, others student-generated. I call this latter category feral writing, and I believe we have undervalued its importance in growing student writers.

Low-stakes writing is important because it builds muscles that strengthen other kinds of writing. But such writing is often tentative and represents a kind of thinking- on-paper. If we want to encourage it, we need to respond to it differently than we would to the traditional writing assignments.

What kind of writers do we hope to see in our classrooms? Will they flourish or languish, be engaged or bored? Can we provide the necessary conditions so they can develop a genuine love of the craft? Having them go through the motions as we check off the various genres-is that really good enough? No, it's not. We can do better than that. I want to create the kind of writing classrooms where they can look down at the sentences they have written, and cherish every last word.
- From the Introduction

"I just love this book. The big ideas of it, the tiny details and helpful, practical advice tucked inside. It is a much needed antidote to some of the program-driven, choice-barren writing classrooms that have begun to dominate the scene. The world needs this pro-writer, pro-teacher, pro-joy manifesto now more than ever."
-Jennifer Serravallo, author of The Writing Strategies Book and The Reading Strategies Book

"The most important words I've read in a book about teaching writing in a long time: 'Instead of giving reluctant writers more structure, let's give them more freedom.' Every child should be lucky enough to have a teacher who has read Ralph Fletcher's Joy Write. It's a throw-back book in the best possible way, reminding us of the foundational principles upon which writing workshops were built-namely, the importance of student choice. With Ralph's sage guidance, teachers will be inspired to create 'writing green belts' in their classrooms, filled with writing 'in the wild' of the very best kind: self-initiated projects that help students craft clear, strong identities as writers."
-Katie Wood Ray, author ofStudy Driven

"In Joy Write, Ralph Fletcher will show you how to give your students what they need right now, in addition to providing them with the tools they need to be successful writers in the years to come. If your writing workshop feels weighed down by the demands of the CCSS and test preparation, Joy Write will help you regain the 'sparkle and sizzle' of your writing workshop so your students will feel energized and joyful about writing again."
-Stacey Shubitz, co-founder of Two Writing Teachers; author of Craft Moves

"For years now, Ralph Fletcher has been one of the finest writers and wisest advocates for authenticity in teaching writing. In his new book, Joy Write, his words once again brilliantly and compellingly guide us towards teaching writing that's playful, personal, and meaning-based. If you want to nurture writers that don't just fill in the blanks but instead cherish the process, Joy Write is an essential read."
-Georgia Heard, author of Heart Maps and Awakening the Heart

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-Stamina growth

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No more complaining

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Happy to write about themselves

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Kids like to share about what they're writing

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-kids feel responsibility in writing on paper

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seeing kids apply what they have learned in grade 3

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Huge change in their enthusiasm due to the share

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It's important to be able to move through the writing process.  We can give students an opportunity to actually go back and forth through the steps of the writing process to help keep them motivated. It is also important to celebrate student writing.

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We are spending too long on developing personal narratives. We should move on to fictional narratives so students can develop their own characters in reading.

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The point about the 'striving' writers needing to move more quickly through the process resonated with us.  We were discussing ways we could get them to move through our current 'small moment story' process more quickly without so much planning. Perhaps using a simpler organizer, etc.

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We were interested in making sure that students had opportunities to write many pieces. We spoke about the genres that allow students to try out many different examples. We think students would be really excited about writing about the news they see!