Lucy Calkins Quotes

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

Teach the writer, not the writing.

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.