1. Julie Reuter
5/6 Grade Teacher
Merton Intermediate School
reuterj@merton.k12.wi.us
Follow me on Twitter:
@jgbluedevil
Companion Website:
http://tinyurl.com/digitalwriters
Digital Writer's Workshop
2. What is Writer's Workshop?
Writing Workshop creates an
environment where students
can acquire skills, along with
fluency, confidence, and desire
to see themselves as writers.
Writer's Workshop Overview
3. Writer's Workshop Check-in
What is your favorite thing about Writer's Workshop? Explain.
What would you change about Writer's Workshop? Explain.
4. Writer's Workshop Components
and Digital Possibilities
● Launching Units
● Mini Lessons/Author's Craft
● Conferring
● Revising and Sharing
● Publishing
● Sharing
8. How Do We Decide What is Best
Practice and When to Integrate?
Standards-based Assessments
Common Core Standards
Lessons/Activities Which
Are:
● curriculum based
● based on student need
and ability
● consider the 4C's
● differentiated and
personalized
● integrated technology
when appropriate
● building relationships
● encouraging student
choice
Best Practices For Technology Integration Page
Best Practices Worksheet
9. PLN's (Personal Learning Networks)
● Who is in your PLN?
● Who is in your students'
PLN?
● Why are PLN's important
for a digital writer's
workshop?
● What are the
possibilities?
Creating Your Personal Learning Networks:
Will Richardson
17. PLN Examples
What is a PLN? 5th Grade & 1st Grade Buddies
Buddy Presentations 5th & 1st Grade
18. Organizing a Digital Writer's
Workshop
● What would my classroom look like?
● What do I need to prepare ahead of time?
● What would I be doing?
● What would my students be doing?
● What would class work look like? What
does homework look like?
19. Classroom Climate
Risk takers encouraged
Freedom and choice
Students taking charge of own learning
Passions shared and encouraged
The 4C's
Relationships
Hard workers building stamina
Clear directions, expectations and assessments
Teacher interaction, sharing and conferring
20. Tools for Digital Writer's
Workshop
Writer's Notebooks
Binders
Chart paper
Sticky notes
Netbooks/Chromebooks
Smart board
Hover cam
iTouch
Library and Online Resources
Google Apps
24. Author's Craft
and Mini Lessons
Possibilities...
Share...
Everyday Edit
Teacher's
College Videos
Common Core
Worksheets.com
Smart
Exchange
Educreations
25. Conferring: Focusing on the
Writer
What is conferring?
" Young writer's want to be listened to. They also want honest, adult responses. They
need teachers who will guide them to the meanings they don't know yet by showing
them how to build on what they do know and can do. Student writer's need response
while the words are churning out, in the midst of the messy, tentative act of drafting
meaning. And they need to be able to anticipate and predict how their teacher will
approach them."
~Nancy Atwell, 1998
"I've seen good teachers give up on the notion of conferring individually with their
students- and this is understandable, but not acceptable. In the teaching of writing,
there could be no compromise that costs so much."
~Lucy Calkins, 1994
What can it be?
26. Conferring: Conversations
"We enter into many conversations in part because we are interested in the subject, but
mainly because we care about the person with whom we are talking. I fear that with all the
pressure we feel today as teachers to raise test scores and to get our students to meet
standards, it's all too easy to forget we must communicate to them in conferences how much
we care about them."
~Carl Anderson, 2000
Face to Face
Blogging
Sharing:
Conferring
Ideas
Email
PLN's:
Share the
Wealth
Buddies &
Writing
Mentors
Sticky
Notes
Moodle
Forums
39. ● Units of Study
● Mini Lessons
● Conferring
● Drafting
● Revising
● Sharing
● Editing
● Publishing
● Writer's Log
● Blogging
● Blog Comments
● Padlet Comments
● Mini Lesson
Practice
● Boom Writer
● Video Creations
● Units of Study
Extensions
49. Blogging: At All Grade Levels
● Collaborative Comments (4K-1st Grade)
● Collaborative Blogs (2nd-3rd Grade)
● Host Individual Blogs posted in Kidblog, Moodle or
other blog hosting site (4th-12th Grade)
58. Resources
Anderson, Carl. How's it Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student
Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000.
Brookhart, Susan M. How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and
Grading. Alexandria: ASCD, 2013.
"Heinemann: Pathways to the Common Core." Heinemann: Pathways to the Common
Core. 11 Apr. 2013 <http://college.heinemann.com/shared/products/E04355.asp>.
Hicks, Troy. The Digital Writing Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009.
