About the Authors Book + DVD: Writing Workshop with 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 six books on the teaching of writing: Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in the Whole Language Classrooms (1996, NCTE); Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom (1999, NCTE); The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They1re All Hard Parts) (2001, NCTE); What We Know By Heart: How to Develop Curriculum for Your WriKatie Wood Ray is the author of 'About the Authors Book + DVD: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers', published 2007 under ISBN 9780325011882 and ISBN 0325011885.