An overview of children's writing development -- Coaching conversations: guiding writing through strategic questioning -- Coaching and its conversations: the seven pedagogical elements -- Writing my name: two-and-a-half-year-old -- A grocery list: a three-year old -- Holiday gift list: a four-and-a-half-year-old -- Picture response with name: young kindergarten -- Visualization response: kindergarten -- Response to a Thanksgiving story: pre-first grade -- Word study and the journal prompt: first grade -- Retelling of a fable: first grade -- Persuasive writing--taking a vacation: second grade -- Acrostic poem: second grade -- Book response: second grade -- How do planes work? Second/third multigrade -- Lead sentences: third grade -- Book reviews: third grade -- Social justice project: third grade -- Erin Canal Newspaper column: fourth grade -- Persuasive writing--dogs versus cats: fourth grade -- Personal opinion essay: fourth grade -- Letter from a Puritan child: fifth grade -- Graphing the ways to eat Oreos: fifth grade -- Science log--nature's palette: fifth grade -- Poet or jazz musician biography essay: sixth grade -- Diary response to a virtual field trip: sixth grade -- Science clerihew poem: sixth grade -- Math journals--teacher to teacher coaching: sixth grade