--- product_id: 34854850 title: "Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing" price: "AR$211007" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/34854850-write-beside-them-risk-voice-and-clarity-in-high-school store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing **Price:** AR$211007 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing - **How much does it cost?** AR$211007 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/34854850-write-beside-them-risk-voice-and-clarity-in-high-school) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I’ve been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units and minilessons and actual conferences with students. ―Penny Kittle What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them. Write Beside Them shows you how to do it. It’s the comprehensive book and companion video that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing. Across genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Each section of Write Beside Them describes a specific element of Penny’s workshop: Daily writing practice: writer’s notebooks and quick writes Instructional frameworks: minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts Genre work: narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres Skills work: grammar, punctuation, and style Assessment: evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and grading All along the way, Penny demonstrates minilessons that respond to students’ immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. In addition, Write Beside Them provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ. Best of all, the online videos take you right inside Penny’s classroom, explicitly modeling how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids. Penny Kittle’s active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students. But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Read Write Beside Them and discover that the most important influence for all young writers is their teacher. Penny was the recipient of the 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them. Review: Something for Everyone - Write Beside Them is written with voice, humor, and humility. Penny Kittle does not tell us she has the perfect class with the perfect student. She tells us how to stick with what we believe to help our students achieve their fullest potential. I teach third grade (self-contained) and still gained so much insight into writing workshop with a constructivist approach by reading Penny's book. The dvd is phenomenal! It has her first day of class, her conferring with students, student work . . . I think writing teachers of grades 3 and up can gain from this book although it is geared to high school English teachers. Penny also refers to the work of other great writing teachers - Don Murray, Don Graves, Tom Romano, Tom Newkirk, Linda Reif, Nancy Atwell; it helps to have all these resources that readers can turn to for more information. Review: Thank the Lord for Penny Kittle! - This book has completely pumped me up for teaching writing next year! So many books are out there with great information, but I found Penny's to be the best fit for me. I think it is because she is a lot like me in her teaching style and beliefs. I LOVED that I was able to see her in action with her students and see how her first day of the workshop goes. So many of the great books on Writing Workshops out there are geared to the elementary school level and not to middle and high school and Penny has done an amazing job at showing how her Writing Workshop works in her classroom. This book will definitely be referenced many times over the coming years. Thank you Penny for such a great resource! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #995,465 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #381 in Secondary Education #2,900 in Educational Certification & Development #8,414 in Instruction Methods | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 126 Reviews | ## Images ![Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61saaqF2qEL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Something for Everyone *by J***R on June 22, 2008* Write Beside Them is written with voice, humor, and humility. Penny Kittle does not tell us she has the perfect class with the perfect student. She tells us how to stick with what we believe to help our students achieve their fullest potential. I teach third grade (self-contained) and still gained so much insight into writing workshop with a constructivist approach by reading Penny's book. The dvd is phenomenal! It has her first day of class, her conferring with students, student work . . . I think writing teachers of grades 3 and up can gain from this book although it is geared to high school English teachers. Penny also refers to the work of other great writing teachers - Don Murray, Don Graves, Tom Romano, Tom Newkirk, Linda Reif, Nancy Atwell; it helps to have all these resources that readers can turn to for more information. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank the Lord for Penny Kittle! *by J***H on May 30, 2010* This book has completely pumped me up for teaching writing next year! So many books are out there with great information, but I found Penny's to be the best fit for me. I think it is because she is a lot like me in her teaching style and beliefs. I LOVED that I was able to see her in action with her students and see how her first day of the workshop goes. So many of the great books on Writing Workshops out there are geared to the elementary school level and not to middle and high school and Penny has done an amazing job at showing how her Writing Workshop works in her classroom. This book will definitely be referenced many times over the coming years. Thank you Penny for such a great resource! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Practical and helpful advice for teaching writing. *by C***S on December 6, 2013* I bought this book for a graduate writing class I was taking, and it has had a very positive impact on the way I teach writing to my students. Kittle offers great practical advice that you can take and apply directly to your classroom. Using ideas from the book, I was able to develop an entire creative writing curriculum, the first one ever offered at our school. The students loved it, and really enjoyed journaling, writing stories, conferencing, and putting together a portfolio at the end. One of the most helpful books I read in graduate school. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/34854850-write-beside-them-risk-voice-and-clarity-in-high-school](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/34854850-write-beside-them-risk-voice-and-clarity-in-high-school) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-11-08*