5. Writer’s Workshop works because it is based on the idea that
students learn to write best when they write frequently, for
extended periods of time, on topics of their own choosing.
Students write more
Each student in the class is considered to be a working author
with the intent of perfecting their craft and publishing their
works.
Students decide writing isn’t as difficult as they have been lead to
believe.
The teacher is a writing professional and peer coach, guiding
authors as they explore their craft.
Students begin to enjoy writing.
Students gain a disposition to write and gain an understanding
of the mechanics of writing in such a way that is not mechanical.
6.
7. Choose their own topics
Write at their individual pace
Writing notebook
Mini-lessons
Conferencing
Publishing
Always writing
The overall intent of writing workshop
is to help students learn what it means
to be a writer – how writers think,
plan, compose, review, and share their
work.
8. • Class Book
• Letter to family/friend
• Student writing collection
• Writing Wall
• Student published book
• Paper chain story
Nobody can make us write
what we don’t want to
write. ~
William Zinsser, On Writing Well
14. Students remember little about
writing tips and techniques, but
they will remember their teacher’s
passion for writing and their
teacher’s faith in them as writers.
Students need to come to believe
in themselves as writers.
(Fletcher & Portalupi, 2001)
15. Two good thoughts one correction.
What are you working on?
Can you read me some of what you’ve got?
How is your writing coming along?
Is there anything I can help you with?
Who are you trying to reach?
Have you read over it yourself and made corrections?
What are you going to do next?
"All learning involves conversation. The
ongoing dialogue, internal and external, that
occurs as we read, write, listen, compose,
observe, refine, interpret, and analyze is
how we learn"
-Regie Routman
19. • I Am…
• Personal Red and Green
Journals
• Topic Journals – Mini
scrapbooks
• Core writing
• Prediction journals
• Add a line books –
ongoing to help with
writer’s block
• On-line publishing
• Blogs
• Classroom anthologies
I found it amazing
to see my words in
something other
then my own
handwriting”
-Maison
20. • What I Did Last Summer Class
Book
• Shared Writing – First Day of
School
• All About Me Book
• Bio Poem
• Tell Me About My Name
• All the Place to Love Story
• Guess What Happened to Me
• Christmas (Holiday)
Traditions
• I Wonder Book
22. • Poetry Book (BARE Books)
• Book of writing throughout the
year (StudentTreasures)
• Caldecott book report
• Newspaper group project
• Longer story broken up into
pages for a book
(StudentTreasures)
• Science or Social Studies
project (Powerpoint shared
with other classes)
27. We need to meet our students where they are not make them come to us. Our students understand and
use technology everyday and love to use technology in the classroom.
Mindmaps
Website builders
Prezi
Timeline generators
Read Write Think
Timeliner
Comic and Cartoon generators for graphic novel
Strip GeneratorToonDoo
Witty Comics
Publishing
The Apprentice Writer
Bookworm
Storykit
Stapleless Book
The Write Kids
Graphic design generators for illustrations
Avatars in simulation games where stories come to life