A Good Fit for All Kids: Collaborating to Teach Writing in Diverse, Inclusive Settings

Acknowledged authors Chandler-Olcott, Kelly wrote A Good Fit for All Kids: Collaborating to Teach Writing in Diverse, Inclusive Settings comprising 232 pages back in 2019. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 1682533433 and 9781682533437. Since then A Good Fit for All Kids: Collaborating to Teach Writing in Diverse, Inclusive Settings textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

A Good Fit for All Kids supports teachers in constructing research-based, collaborative approaches to teaching writing, in print and technology-mediated forms, for diverse, inclusive classrooms.

Based on lessons drawn from an experimental writing enrichment program, the book illustrates how teachers and students benefit from a well-sequenced writing curriculum with high expectations for a heterogeneous population of participants, including students who have often been poorly served by writing instruction in schools.

Former high school teacher and teacher educator Kelly Chandler-Olcott delves into detail on key topics such as planning, inquiry stance, modeling, and conferring, and shows how each can be better adapted to inclusive classrooms with innovative uses of writers’ notebooks, “noticings” activities, and “on the fly” conferencing. The book also includes lesson plan templates, protocols for examining student work, routines for balancing explicit instruction with group work, and ideas for strategic grouping at different stages of composing, among other tested tools.

A teacher-friendly resource grounded in empirical research yet filled with practical advice, A Good Fit for All Kids is uniquely suited for educators interested in making high-quality writing a special focus for professional learning communities and other collaborative efforts.