Step Write Up provides hands-on exercises for teachers and for any workshop leader endeavoring to bring 21st century collaboration and writing skills into the classroom.
To accomplish this, the authors have assembled lessons that can be modified for your own specific personalities, uses, and grade levels. Some are icebreakers that are aimed at promoting communication and collaborative teamwork. Some are lessons that provide for individual creativity and then lead into opportunities for group sharing and critiquing. And the authors go even further, showing how the products of these creative efforts can even carry us into areas of initiative and entrepreneurialism.
There is a short “lead-in” to many of the lessons. In each of those, they refer to New York State Curriculum Standards that the content of the lesson addresses.
In this part how-to book, part relationship book, Marriage of Minds presents the strategies and techniques you need for creating productive collaborations and successful fiction. Drawing on their own personal and professional relationship, and on the relationships of other well-known collaborative teams, the McGoldricks walk writers through the essentials of a successful writing collaboration.
Five Stars. A superb introduction to the fine art of collaboration.... Marriage of Minds covers the fine art of collaboration, describing how collaborations work and providing a blend of literary how-to and relationship analysis to show what skills are needed in a collaborative effort and how to achieve success. The focus on collaborative fiction provides a fine foundation for understanding the dynamics involved; both personal and literary.