Episode Descriptions

101 Writers on Writing (24:11)
Noteworthy professional and award-winning writers talk about how they learned to write, how they teach writing, where they get their ideas, and what classroom teachers can do to promote good writing. Authors featured in the program include Toni Morrison, John Barth, Pat Conroy, Lee Smith, Connie May Fowler, Horton Foote, A. Mannette Ansay, and others.

102 A Class Act (26:44)
Every summer Vicki Holt leads workshops for elementary teachers to verse them in the innovative writing techniques she uses in her kindergarten/first grade classroom. In this program, she demonstrates these teaching techniques to her students, and discuss them with teaching partner, Vonda Gordon.

103 It's STILL Elementary (26:15)
In this program, Rick Shelton, author of the children's book Hoggle's Christmas, shows fourth and fifth grade students at West Jasper Elementary School in Alabama, how to move beyond "first grade" writing to become imaginative, persuasive, and informative writers.