ABSTRACT
As we did in the preface to this book, once again we invite you to “picture a reader.” We hope that the images that now come to mind are rich and varied, peopled with children reading alone and together, enjoying texts of many sorts, thinking about their individual preferences, and talking about and evaluating what they have read with attention to a full range of characters, plots, and emotions. When you picture a writer, we hope you see similar diversity and energy, as children write for a variety of purposes in a variety of forms, experimenting as they do with different ways of developing and organizing what they write, with as much attention to how meaning is made as to what meaning they convey.
