I always enjoy visiting the writingfix.com site. It is a great source foe mentor text mini lessons for the qwriitng workshop.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (lesson link)
All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan (lesson link)
America : A Patriotic Primer by Lynne Cheney (lesson link)
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Carpenters Middle poetry students share at coffeehouse, written by Melanie Tucker, The Daily Times
Charter school legislation to be subject of state board meeting, written by Dana Beyerle, The Gadsden Times
Defining ‘College Ready,’ Nationally, written by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
Education Innovation Is Lagging — But Is There Hope?, written by Seyward Darby, The New Republic
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by Laura Johnson: Writers’ Workshop in the classroom is something that a teacher can utilize when deciding to engage students in an original writing activity. With a little planning, Writers’ Workshop can be incorporated into the daily classroom routine as a means of fostering creativity and motivation among students. Writers’ Workshop can promote literacy development [...]

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The Literature Link: A Series of Lessons for Teaching Writing Using Children’s Literature
http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/Handouts/lessons.pdf
This publication is a book of lessons designed to reinforce the features of effective writing.  It grew out of a desire to create a bibliography of picture books that would be powerful models for teaching writing to the students of North Carolina.  [...]

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 Here are 15 free ed-tech resources worth exploring:
Empressr – Empressr is a free, online presentation tool. It can be used to upload photos, audio, and video. Uploaded information can be shared publicly or with a select group of people.
Web-Chops – This unique web app makes it easy for teachers to share portions of the web [...]

From one of the top teachers of wriitng comes a book about launching a writing workshop. You can purchase the book from heinemann.com.
Launching A Writing Workshop by Ralph Fletcher

Teachers are constantly immersing and engaging their students in many materials and ideas. It is valuable to offer the means for young thinkers to synthesize all of these experiences to create new knowledge. This article gives many ways for young thinkers to “handle” their new found information and to assemble it into some form of [...]

Ralph Fletcher writes in his book, “boy Writers”, about how we are cheating the male population in our writing workshops. Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades. In general, boys don’t enjoy writing as much as girls. What’s wrong? How can we do a better of job of [...]

I love technology. I use three computer languages to write in, I develop web sites, I train others to use technology in their writing workshops and I at times turn my back on the technology I love. I was born in 1951. I am of an era that use to write letters. We would take [...]

All the Places to Love Lesson

After many years of teaching the writing workshop I have found there are some key parts that one must have in place in order to provide a successful environment for the young writers.

 Author(s): Katie Wood Ray, Lester L. Laminack  In The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray offers a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers really do is engage in [...]

A mini-lesson focuses on a specific teaching point and lasts five to twenty minutes. You can teach a mini-lesson with a whole group, small group, or with individual students. Mini-lessons are ideal for quick lessons leading to active engagement.
Steps for Completing a Mini-Lesson
Before you plan your mini-lesson, you need to determine your teaching point. A [...]

Following is a list of no-cost Web 2.0 sites that are available for teachers to evaluate. Many of these tools are on the open Internet, so look at them carefully before using with your students! Be sure to check out myShedding Light on Web 2.0page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers [...]

General Resources:

Alt.usage.english newsgroup
Keith Ivey’s English Usage Page
Mark Israel’s FAQ for alt.usage.english
World Wide Words (Michael Quinion) — An extensive site “devoted to the English language – its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution.” Always interesting.
English Usage, Style, & Composition — A collection of reference works at Bartleby.com, including American Heritage, Strunk & White, Fowler’s King’s English, and [...]

I’ve started a new site.It is devoted to publishing student writing. To make writing public, the writer must have an audience. The audience becomes the writer’s stimulus–the purpose for writing. If children do not have a purpose for writing (i.e., an intended audience) then writing becomes an “exercise” for a non-communicative event. Children who have [...]

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I’ve visited countless writing classrooms over the years and it has always been interesting to me why some work and others don’t. I do believe that writing classrooms that incorporate Donald Graves’ seven conditions for effective writing find greater success than those that skip these basic writer needs. I’ve come to think though that there [...]

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“Process writing is learning how to write by writing,” notes Stone (1995, p. 232). This current emphasis in writing instruction focuses on the process of creating writing rather than the end product (Tompkins, 1990). The basic premise of process writing is that all children, regardless of age, can write. The initial focus is on creating [...]

Writing Conferences are only one part of the writing process. If properly introduced and incorporated, conferring in groups becomes a most beneficial tool to improve student writing. In the group conference, students should be positive, constructive, and specific-behaviors which middle school students do not normally practice. This group conference method does as much to develop [...]