Writing Workshop Lessons

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How Rich Literature Helps Young Writers
The best writers are those who are voracious readers; even when they’re established and successful, they know that they have to continue to read other [...]

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Today the students and I took a look at different kinds of leads authors use to enter their stories. You can see the kids identified them and labeled them accordingly to how they saw E. B. White and Katherine Patterson enter their stories. The students decided that E. B. White used a question, dialogue and [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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Free Mini Lessons

All the Places to Love Lesson

Writing Workshop Mini LessonsWriting Workshop Mini Lessons (book)
Print: $20.00
Download: $10.00
This book contains a collection of writing mini lessons for the writing workshop.

Writing Workshop LessonsWriting Workshop Lessons (book)
Print: $19.99
Download: $10.00
A book full of writing workshop lessons.

Graphic Organizers for the Writing WorkshopGraphic Organizers for the Writing Workshop (book)
Print: $9.98
Download: $7.00
This book is full [...]

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Sketching People Mini Lessons in Writing Workshop

The writers’ workshop is exactly what Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde (1993) identified as a best practice in writing. The writers’ workshop can help improve students’ writing in the following ways:

Increase student ownership and responsibility by:

helping students choose their own topics and goals
using brief teacher-student conferences
teaching students to review their own progress

Increase class time spent on [...]

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Joyful Learning in Kindergarten by Bobbi Fisher. ISBN 0-325-00038-7 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

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…And with a Light Touch: Learning about Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders by Carol Avery. ISBN 0-435-08787-8 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

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On Their Way: Celebrating Second Graders as they Read and Write by Jane Fraser & Donna Skonick. ISBN 0-435-08830-5 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

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Invitations: Changing [...]

Ralph Fletcher writes in his book, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices,
“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 creating boy-friendly classrooms so their voices can be heard?
In [...]

Writing Workshop Checklist

Writing Workshop Mini LessonsWriting Workshop Mini Lessons (book)
Print: $20.00
Download: $10.00
This book contains a collection of writing mini lessons for the writing workshop.

Writing Workshop LessonsWriting Workshop Lessons (book)
Print: $19.99
Download: $10.00
A book full of writing workshop lessons.

Graphic Organizers for the Writing WorkshopGraphic Organizers for the Writing Workshop (book)
Print: $9.98
Download: $7.00
This book is full [...]

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