In the Beginning

Although literacy devlopment begins long before children are school age, the kindergarden classroom marks an important moment as students embark on their lifelong journey as writers. In the Beginning offer a close-up view of master teacher Emelie Parker's writing workshop at Bailey's Elementary School in Falls Church, Virgina, where nearly all students enter Kindergarden as English learners. This video focuses on critical teaching skills in context, word work and conferring with young writers. Most importantly, In the beginning offers a rare view inside the mind of an accomplished teacher as she makes a million moment -to-moment decisions during a hectic kindergarden day, while never losing sight of her primary goal: to help her students develop into independent writers.

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