Writing Workshop Lessons

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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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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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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

Writing Workshop Mini LessonsWriting Workshop Mini Lessons (book)
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This book contains a collection of writing mini lessons for the writing workshop.

Writing Workshop LessonsWriting Workshop Lessons (book)
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A book full of writing workshop lessons.

Graphic Organizers for the Writing WorkshopGraphic Organizers for the Writing Workshop (book)
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All the Places to Love Lesson

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Writingfox.com’s Rob Stone writes about music in the writng workshop:
“Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.” — Ben Harper
Hello, my name is Rob Stone, a high school language arts and social studies teacher [...]

Writing Marathon
Louisiana site director Richard Louth describes the magic, and anxiety, of leading a writing marathon. While revealing that “things do go wrong,” he admits surprising success and offers tips for conducting a marathon, writing prompts, and excerpts of participants’ writing.
Café du Monde and the click and clanging of the glasses and silverware. One of [...]

Poetry Slams in the Writing Workshop make the writing come to life. It is a great way to get people moving and engaged whether they are 10 or 50 years old.
History of Poetry Slams
Marc Smith is credited with starting the poetry slam at the Get Me High Lounge in Chicago in November 1984. In July [...]

It is important when cultivating a language for writing building wide to provide a situation where many (550 kids) the opportunity to read and make comments on writing. We posted over 100 pieces of writing on the walls of our building. Sticky notes and pens were made accessible. When students went to the restroom or [...]

There are so many ways for young writers to come up with ideas to write about it’s hard to choose a favorite. I personally enjoy the heart map that Ralph Fletcher et al describe. It is a particularly good instrument to use when searching for a powerful topic to write about such as in the [...]

I have introduced many kinds of writing already this year. It allows the young writers many choices. The kids love to have a say (choice) in what they write. Here is a list of what we do so far as of 10/27/09.

Our Genre Selection List
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In the writing class, the flipchart mini lesson is a perfect tool to model short excerpts of the writing craft that can make a student’s writing grow. These lessons can include procedural, convention, and craft lessons. Some can be invitational but most should be an expectation for the writer to Have-A-Go at the lesson that [...]

Patricia MacLachlan is an extraordinary writer and one a writing teacher can freely use to model writing in the wriitng workshop. In her book, All The Places To Love, she displays the use of skillfully using prepositional phrases that tell you when and where things are happening. Sometimes she puts the prepositional phrases at the beginning of her lovely sentences. But sometimes they can be found in the middle or at the sentence’s end. By using these prepositional phrases it will give your writing fluency and beauty for the reader to enjoy.

The National Writing Project (NWP) is a professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. The mission of the NWP is to improve student achievement by improving the teaching of writing and improving learning in the nation’s schools.
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NWP 2008 Research Brief: Writing Project Professional Development for Teachers Yields Gains in Student Writing Achievement. Summary: This research brief summarizes nine studies that examined the effects of NWP professional development programs on teacher practices and student writing achievement in schools and districts served by writing project sites. The results demonstrate positive effects on the [...]

The Writing Site:
In an effort to extend the benefits of Buddy’s experiences in writing instruction and assessment to all Indiana educators, we launched a new Writing Site early in 2005. At the core of this site is an interactive tutorial for holistic assessment of student writing using the ISTEP+ rubrics. Currently, users can practice scoring [...]

The National Writing Project is a program that is open to the best that is known about the teaching of writing from whatever source: from literature in the field, from research, and from the insights and experiences of successful teachers at all levels. The Writing Project proposes no packaged plans, no teacher-proof materials, no set [...]

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For many years I did the Status of the Class as described by Calkins, Graves…et al. But today I take stock of the work we’re doing in the writing workshop a bit different. I think it is because of the nature of the writing class itself I can do this. I [...]

Katie Wood Ray has an excellent book, Wondrous Words, that gives rationales for ways of looking at a text and deciding if it could be used to teach an aspect of the craft of writing in the writing workshop. This is a picture of a few of my mentor texts in my grandfather’s suitcase. Another [...]

Selecting Mentor Texts for Writing Workshop
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Our Tuesday writing workshop went well today. I reviewed how to make a writer’s notebook. I went over our Mentor Text Mini Lesson on Leads that authors like E. B. White and Katherine Patterson use in their writing. I am planning tomorrow’s Mentor Text lesson on narraitive poetry. I think I’ll use two books: Momma, [...]

Mentor Text Labels
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This is my grandfather’s suitcase from long ago. He used to teach before he decided he wanted to be a farmer. It seems to be a great place to keep those 15 to 20 books that I use day in and day out to teach the kids the craft of writing.
In memory of Granddad Leroy.

“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 [...]

The Madison Chautauqua Festival of Art will celebrate its 38th annual event September 27 & 28, 2008. The original Chautauqua in Madison dates back to 1901, when ten-day camp meetings gave Sunday school teachers a chance to mix their religious studies with recreation. The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle provided correspondence schooling to adults in [...]

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