Leah Mermelstein
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Biography Leah Mermelstein taught both in Massachusetts and in New York City before becoming a staff developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. While at the project Leah mentored primary teachers in many schools, providing the demonstration teaching, coaching and study groups necessary to help those teachers establish joyful and rigorous Reading and Writing Workshops. Now, Leah is a nationally recognized literacy consultant who specializes in primary reading and writing. She works with students, teachers, principals and other district leaders helping them to design thoughtful plans for the teaching of reading and writing. She is the coauthor of Launching the Writing Workshop (with Lucy Calkins) (Heinemann). She is also the author of Reading/  Photo by Angela Jimenez |
Selected WorksNon-fiction
Don't Forget to Share: The Crucial Last Step in the Writing Workshop
This brand new book will show you how to make your share sessions more instructional. Nonfiction
Reading/Writing Connections
in the K-2 Classroom:
Find the Clarity and Then Blur the Lines
This book demonstrates how through careful, explicit assessing, planning, and teaching every student can understand and use the reading/writing connection to become stronger readers and writers at the same time. Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum: Launching the Writing Workshop
This book shows teachers how to launch a joyful and rigorous Writing Workshop in their classrooms. |
