Estimated Reading Time: 1 and a half minutes (295 words)
Primary Audience: K-8 Writing Teachers
Write Here, Write Now is an adorable and empowering new book from Rebecca Gardyn Levington coming out on January 1, 2025. Here are three takeaways from the book that will inspire ways to use it in your writing classroom. Don’t forget to leave a comment about how you hope to use this book to be entered in a chance to win! Thank you, Capstone, for sponsoring this giveaway.
- There are many ways to be a writer.
“Pencil? Keyboard? It’s your choice! You can even use your voice” (p. 12-13). Rebecca affirms writers of all abilities and highlights the importance of letting writers write in their way. She also describes how writers have different processes. Rebecca illustrates how some writers “scribble fast” and others “take it slow.” Some writers like to work with other writers while others work alone. These pages can help teachers build a writing community that honors diversity and builds writerly identities.
2. There are many purposes for writing.
Rebecca brings the reader’s attention to writing to change minds and writing for fun. Whether you share this book with your class in the midst of a unit of study or during independent projects, it’s important for writing classrooms to discuss a myriad of reasons for writing.
3. Everyone is a writer.
Rebecca writes, “Writing is for everyone.” Andrea Boatta’s illustrations allow kids to see themselves in the writers in the book, and Rebecca’s text affirms all kinds of writers.
Rebecca leaves writers with a challenge to GET WRITING! She’s outlined all of the low-stakes ways writers can write.
I was pleasantly surprised to run into Rebecca (after weeks of emailing back and forth) at NCTE in Boston! Thank you, Rebecca, for the advance copy.
Visit the Capstone Spring Preview website to preview the book and download coloring pages and activities.
How will you use this new text in your writing workshop? Comment below for a chance to win!
The winner is Valerie A. Person! Congratulations.
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I’m not here for the prizes, just to say how excited I am to see this book come into being! This hits the nail on the head for me and my colleagues. Thank you!
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I love sharing children’s books that focus on the art of writing. This book sounds like a great mentor text to support students and teachers through the writing process. I look forward to sharing this book with the K-5 teachers that I work with.
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I love sharing children’s books that focus on the art of writing. This book sounds like a great mentor text to support students and teachers through the writing process. I look forward to sharing this book with the K-5 teachers that I work with.
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I love sharing children’s books that focus on the art of writing. This book sounds like a great mentor text to support students and teachers through the writing process. I look forward to sharing this book with the K-5 teachers that I work with.
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What a great way to encourage the writing community in our classroom. Congratulations to the author and thank you for sharing this!
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Loved learning about this book! I think it would be a great introduction into the writing workshop at the start of the year or when we need to renew our purpose for writing at anytime throughout the year.
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The challenge to get writing lends itself to be a jumpstart to writing workshop.
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The challenge at the end of the book to “get writing” would be a great jumpstart to writing workshop.
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The challenge at the end of the book to “get writing” would be a great jumpstart to writing workshop.
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I love children’s books that encourage students in their writing journey! I would love to share this book with the teachers that I work with.
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I love it!! Writing is so important. Inspiring students to write can be a true challenge, I like the variety of techniques you list and encourage.
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As the elementary writing specialist at four schools, this would be a great book to read aloud to classes at the beginning of the year when I reintroduce myself to the students. Small groups of students could be assigned “Who?”, “Where?”, etc. and brainstorm answers to these questions to post in the classroom.
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Write Here, Write Now sounds perfect for the Young Authors writing program at my school. I am persistently searching for mentor text that I can share with third through sixth grade students as they embark on their Young Author writing journey. I am sure this book will be a hit with teachers of writing and literacy coaches everywhere.
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This would be a great book to use at the beginning of the year to get your students excited about writing! It would be a great addition to my classroom library!
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I look forward to seeing this children’s book. I love that your experiences of working with writers has informed this book—a text rooted in authenticity and wisdom gained from real work with real writers. Congratulations! What an inspirational model for someone who is also wanting to write a children’s picture book. I hope you’ll share advice for those who want to write a children’s picture book rooted in authenticity as well. Valerie Person vperson@currituck.k.12.nc.us
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Congrats Valerie, you were randomly chosen as the winner! What is your email? The one above doesn’t work.
Leah
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