Literature

Literature plays a key role in helping children's voices take the floor. Literature triggers thoughts, unlocks memories, and helps create the kind of community in which it's safe to tell our stories. - Shelley Harwayne

Their Lives

We remind students that their lives are worth writing about. - Shelley Harwayne

Because They Write

Writing isn't simply desk work, it is also life work. Writing is not just a matter of making lists and drafting entries and turning details into drafts, it is also a matter of keeping ducks in a city apartment, of watching a shaft of sunlight turn a bale of hay into gold, of remembering recess games and taunts. When we teach writing, we teach young people to live differently because they write. - Lucy Calkins with Shelley Harwayne, Living Between the Lines