Get the youngest students off to a great start with simple strategies for teaching the basics of writing: how to hold a pencil, print legibly, spell, punctuate, and create. Practical and hands-on, the book explores best practices in writing competency, such as fine motor skills and the ability to understand the relationship between sounds and letters. This invaluable guide also offers background information, lesson ideas, suggestions for student review, and ways to make lessons both more straightforward and more challenging. Basic Tools for Beginning Writers provides all the tools teachers need to help students become real writers.

Betty Schultze has had extensive experience in K–4 classrooms, as a Reading Recovery teacher, and as a consultant for students with learning disabilities. Betty was formerly a field supervisor for student teachers at Vancouver Island University and is currently a popular workshop presenter throughout British Columbia. She has worked with teachers in training and as an early literacy mentor for the Vancouver School Board. Betty currently resides on Gabriola Island, BC.

Betty Schultze's profile page