2002 Donald H. Graves Writing Award Winner
Lisa Cleaveland is the first recipient of the NCTE Donald H. Graves Writing Award. She is a first grade teacher at Jonathan Valley Elementary School in Waynesville, North Carolina.
"If you walk into our first grade classroom at Jonathan Valley Elementary, located in the mountains of North Carolina, between 8:45 and 10:00 a.m., you will see children writing all around the room, each of them working on different writing projects in a variety of different genres. Most of them will be writing with great intention, crafting their books and poems with repeating lines, and circular text structures. Some
children will be writing in their notebooks, while others will have stapled paper together—some with lines and some without—to make a book. This is what you will see everyday, any day, in my room during writers’ workshop."
Read more of Lisa's award winning essay!  (PDF)
About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers. Heineman, 2004.
This book beautifully describes young children in the act of learning. Katie Wood Ray and Lisa Cleaveland demonstrate what it takes to nourish writing right from the start.
Award Overview
Established in 2001 by Donald H. Graves, this award annually recognizes teachers in grades 1-6 who demonstrate an understanding of student improvement in the teaching of writing. The award is administered by the Elementary Section Steering Committee of NCTE which selects an award recipient from the portfolios and essays submitted during the year. MORE . . .
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Graves Award Overview
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