In honor of Valentine’s Day, let’s make a luscious list of all the reasons we love writing workshop. I’ll start the list here and you add to it in the comments. Sweet!
- Writing workshop helps writers see the world differently. When people live like writers, they have more compassion and mercy and acceptance of others.
- Writing workshop gives students self-confidence. When people live like writers they have a stronger understanding of themselves and how they fit into the world.
- Writing workshop gives people a chance to see how their voice matters and how their words can influence others.
- Writing workshop makes conventions matter. I see more growth toward Standard English in writers from workshops than those in a traditional classroom.
- Writing workshop encourages innovative thinking and imagination.
Can’t wait to see the list go on and on and on in the comments. Happy {Heart} Day!
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Writing Workshop lets me be a better teacher who is more aware and more involved in her students’ writing. Even doing a first-year implementer of workshop and knowing that I am doing a less than stellar job, I am so much more effective teaching my students than last year and all the years before. Yay workshop!
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Writing workshop lets me know my students in a way I wouldn’t if they had to write what I told them.
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Writing Workshop gives students a real sense of purpose and audience for their work!
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Writing Workshop supports our most struggling students in ways that allow them to see their own brilliance.
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Writing Workshop is fun! Paper, pencils, pens, crayons, markers, construction paper–and a stapler! Talk about a set up that makes kids excited and ready to dig in. Fun, fun, fun!
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Writing connects a community of learners.
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Writing Workshop ensures that students are engaged in the practice of writing on a regular basis. Without standardized tests to pressure teachers to continue this practice, it is even more essential that we know its benefits.
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Writers’ workshop helps making a community stronger through sharing the personal self in words.
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Writing Workshop gives reason to write and to write well.
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