Teachers' Guide. Edited by Valerie Chow Bush and Judith Tannenbaum. This portable field guide to teaching creative writing to children represents the collective wisdom of WritersCorps teachers and the creative writing field over the past decade. Designed with the WritersCorps teacher in mind, LESSONS ALONG THE WAY offers step-by-step instructions to more than 100 writing exercises field-tested with youth ages 5 to 25. WritersCorps is a San Francisco community service program whose mission is to transform individuals and communities through the written word. Their teaching programs and publications are aimed at underserved youth in low-income neighborhoods.