Writing workshop is the perfect space to provide students with the tools and vocabulary to represent themselves and the world around them, in pictures and words.
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Exploring Identity in Writing Workshop: Identity Webs as a Conferring Tool
Add a new tool to your conferring toolbox: students' identity webs. Identity webs can help students bring more of themselves to their writing.
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Three Ways to Make Student Growth Visible Across the Year
Young writers show tremendous growth each year, but sometimes lack the tools or the skills to see it. This year, be intentional about putting systems and routines into place that not only make this growth visible but also allow your students to push themselves in new directions.
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Exploring Identity in Writing Workshop
Read about how one school is working together to think about how to support students in exploring and bringing their identities into their writing.
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I Write Therefore I Am: Using Mentor Texts to Study Identity in Writing Workshop
Today is a Voices From the Community post, written by Logan Beth Fisher. She writes, "Writing workshop is the perfect time of the day in which to create opportunities for students to truly do a deep dive into their identities. The more chances a child has to examine the things that make them who they are, the greater the chance that they will broaden their capacity to generate ideas in which to write. Like any other good writing unit, educators can rely on mentor texts to help model not only the craft of writing but will also offer ways in which students can consider their own identities based on the theme or subject of the text."
