Guided writing is your handbook for the newest, most effective way to move students into imdependent writing. Lori Oczkus provides everything you need to support children in the fledgling phase between carefully modeled group writing and their first solo pieces. Guided writing explaines how to observe which stage of writing development your writers are in, how to challenge them to stretch their writing into the next developmental phase, and how to provide specific teaching that helps them achieve goals they can't reach alone.

Scaffolding writing instruction: guiding writers -- Using scaffolded writing steps, cool tools, and graphic organizers -- Finding your voice: noisy poems -- What's your story? personal narrative and weekend webs -- Write this way! patterned writing, text structure, and author's craft -- Read and write all about it! expository writing -- Lights, camera, action! acting out narratives.