Teaching Behind About the Authors How to Support Our Youngest Writers

After leaving Western Carolina University where she was an Associate Professor of language arts education for eight years, Dr. KATIE RAY is now a full time writer and researcher of the teaching of writing. With a particular focus on the study of writing craft, she leads teacher workshops and summer institutes across the nation related to the teaching of writing. Her professional background includes both elementary and middle school teaching experience and two years as a staff developer at The Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University. Katie is also the author or co-author of five books on the teaching of writing: Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in the Whole Language Classrooms (1996, NCTE)Ray, Katie Wood is the author of 'Teaching Behind About the Authors How to Support Our Youngest Writers', published 2005 under ISBN 9780325008363 and ISBN 0325008361.