Writing+Workshop

Creating a Community of Learners and Writers
 * 1) // The beauty of writing workshop lies in its predictability…in the best writing workshops students know what is expected of them in terms of maintaining their writing--expectations about managing materials, supporting other writers, generating ideas, drafting, and publishing. Writing workshops need to be predictable places so that wonderful, unpredictable things can happen in them. **Katie Wood Ray** //

Slide Presentation 4.11.16 Overview of the Writing Workshop Anderson cautions readers to look beyond such artificial boundaries (e.g.,standards, testing) and dive into pedagogy, process, content knowledge, and research that reveals best practices for teaching writing. [|7 min. video:] Jeff Anderson talks about **creating an environment that inspires** students to write. It is actually a plug for his book,//Ten Things Every Writer Should Know,// but worth 7 minutes of your time! One page overview of the essential elements of the Writing Workshop Flow Chart: Great visual mapping the steps of the Writing Workshop Planning Easy to use planning sheet for creating an effective mini-lesson List of mentor texts to teach the Six Traits of Writing 31 pages of Lesson Reproducibles for Middle School...lots of ideas with a good table of contents Process Quick look at the Five Steps of the Writing Process ** Prewriting ** [|Link to Education Place]: Many graphic organizers to download for prewriting! Topics include: Free-writing Brainstorming Imaging Talking Writer's Notebooks Using Technology Strategic Plannig as part of prewriting Mnemonics to help students think about planning

** Drafting ** ** Revising ** [|A How to Revise Video:] Good video to show to your class. This is a mock lesson where one student is teaching the other student how to revise. (5 min) ** Editing ** ** Publishing ** Encourage students to publish their works in a variety of ways, such as a class book, bulletin board, letters to the editor, school newsletter, or website. The ReadWriteThink Printing Press tool is useful for creating newspapers, brochures, flyers and booklets. Having an authentic audience beyond the classroom gives student writing more importance and helps students to see a direct connection between their lives and their literacy development.

Problem Solving Interested in using technology to support writing? Here are some innovative ideas. Here's a link to [|8 Great Sites] for encouraging reluctant writers. More ways to use technology! Assessing Writing Thoughts to Ponder Find out why this formula is not the best approach to developing thoughtful writers.