At the beginning of the school year, take time before launching your first unit to allow students to settle in to writing workshop. This time helps you learn about students, build their confidence, and teach workshop routines.
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Making the Most of Pre-Assessments
We spend a week or so sharing stories, and building excitement for writing stories. We hand out notebooks with fanfare, and writers happily personalize them. They brainstorm ideas for stories they could write. And then we stand in front of the class and explain that today is the day we want each of them to… Continue reading Making the Most of Pre-Assessments
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A View From The Classroom: Month One.
October is here! We’ve been in school for just about a month now, and our writing workshop has moved from its early stages of uncertainty and experimentation to let’s-get-down-to-it writing routines...
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Launching a Year of Writing With Poetry
Jenny Maehara believes poems are wonderful as a launching point for writing because students can write many poems in a unit and feel like prolific writers from the start. Find out how students can learn the habits of writers and the routines of writing workshop while crafting meaningful pieces using a balance of different details and thoughtful structure in Jenny's guest blog post.
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Sharing a Notebook Lesson
Aimee Buckner's Book, Notebook Know-How, is an excellent resource for providing kids with strategies for generating notebook writing. Since many folks who took our poll asserted that they wanted more info on units of study, I figured I'd post a minilesson of mine that is based off of Buckner's Best and Worst Life Events Strategy.… Continue reading Sharing a Notebook Lesson
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STRONG EMOTIONS MINILESSON
I was asked, by Ro, about my Strong Emotions/Skittles Lesson. I normally don't post minilessons I write in this forum for several reasons (one of which is that it doesn't align with the mission statement Ruth and I composed for this blog). However, this one is a bit out-of-the-box. Hence, I am posting the minilesson… Continue reading STRONG EMOTIONS MINILESSON
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This Year’s Launching Unit
Yesterday was our day to work on Writing Workshop at our school's Summer Institute. My colleagues and I revised our launching unit from last year since it was filled with too many collecting strategies. The calendar we put together is based-off of the work of Vopat, Davis & Hill, Calkins, Buckner, Fletcher, and Lyon. Here's… Continue reading This Year’s Launching Unit
