1. Developing Accomplished Writers: The Writing Workshop
Chapter 5
Developing Accomplished Writers: The Writing Workshop

2. Independent Writing Guided Writing Investigations
The purpose of the writing workshop is to give students opportunities to write within the school day and to provide appropriate, intensive, targeted instruction to the whole group, small groups, and individuals. This is done in 3 instructional contexts:
Independent Writing
Guided Writing
Investigations

3. The Basic Structure for Independent Writing:
Writer’s Talk [optional] min
Minilesson min
Status of the Class [optional] 2 min
Writing [notebook or project
Conferring] min
Group Share and Evaluation min

4. The Writing Process (different from what we are used to)
Explore
Notice events, people, and objects around you
Probe experiences for ideas
Record thoughts, observations through writing and sketching
Read, listen, and engage in exploratory research
Reflect to shape thoughts
Discover interest, focus and purpose

5. Draft Commit to a writing project-tentative audience and genre
Tentatively plan writing
Write discovery draft (Draft #1) and successive drafts to final draft
Revise, select from, or expand discovery dragt
Focus on voice
Develop ideas and attend to text organization
Attend to sentence variety and word choice
Work on beginnings, details, language flow and endings

6. Edit
Proofread and edit for conventions – grammar, spelling, capitalization, punctuation
Or what I call GUMS errors – grammar, usage, mechanics and spelling
Complete final copy
Publish
Conduct final, formal editing
Produce published piece with final layout, illustrations, graphics (as appropriate)

7. Creating an Environment to Support Good Writing
Students need to be comfortable
Students need an array of materials available to them
Students need a writing folder to keep current and finished projects in
Text resources such as dictionaries and thesauruses

8. Minilessons
A minilesson is a short lesson focused on a specific principle or procedure
Teaches something important about writing and demonstrates an aspect of the writing process
Cannot be all telling… needs interaction and contributions from students

9. Types of Minilessons
Management minilessons help students learn the routines and procedures of writing workshop
Strategy and skill minilessons help students learn how to use the conventional rules for written language accurately and effectively
Craft minilessons shoe students how writers work

10. Chapter 6 Making it Work: Organizing and Managing
Time, Space, and Resources

11. Building a Community in the Classroom…
This is based on a number of principles where all members…
Are trusted with rights and responsibilities
Take responsibility for their own learning and helping others
Take responsibility for managing time and activity productivity
Learn self-management as part of the curriculum delivered by the teacher
Understand that keeping materials in order helps everyone learn

12. Building a Community Cont.
The two aspects of the environment focused on in this chapter are:
Physical Environment
How space and materials are organized
Social Environment
How people behave in the environment

13. Managing Time
You should try to find three blocks of time for language/word study, reading, and writing.
Language/word study should be approximately 30 minutes
Reading and writing workshop should fall between 45 minutes to an hour

14. Some Other General Principles for Using Time…
Establish a productive and easy-to-accomplish task that students perform every morning as they enter the classroom
Find ways to take care of routine business efficiently
Vary the schedule across the week
Post the schedule each morning and briefly review it with students
Establish routines that will save time