Bomer, Katherine

Offers suggestions and advice for teachers to approach student writing, encouraging them to seek out the "gems" instead of the mistakes, and providing sample assessments of student work and step-by-step instructions.

Explains how to teach children memoir writing, providing ideas for mini-lessons, writing prompts and activities, revision, peer conferences, and teacher-student conferences and presenting a unit designed to help students utilize the knowledge and skills they learn from memoir writing when taking standarized tests.