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2 Anticipation Guide  Use your agree/disagree cards to respond to the following statements: 1. Students write across the curriculum all day long and do not need a separate time for writing. 2. Writer’s Workshop is a time for grading papers and catching up on lesson plans. 3. Writer’s Workshop is not beneficial for gifted students.

3 Why do I need writer’s workshop? My students write all day long!  Your students are writing across the curriculum. That’s great! However, we need for writing to be the curriculum if we want our students to write well.

4 Lucy Caulkins says, “Children deserve to be explicitly taught the skills and strategies of effective writing, and the qualities of good writing.” A Guide to The Writing Workshop, Grades 3-5

5 Writer’s Workshop is the way!  Writer’s workshop is a framework for writing instruction and practice in the classroom. It consists of 4 components: mini-lesson, independent writing, conferring, and sharing.

6 Write down things you notice in the video?

7 Possible Schedule  Time: Component:  5 minutes Read aloud (optional)  10 - 15 minutes Mini-lesson  30 minutes Independent Writing & Conferring /*Guided Writing  5-10 minutes Sharing

8 *Guided Writing?  Guided writing is similar to guided reading, the teacher works with a group based on their needs. This is particularly helpful if a group of students is having difficulty with a concept and you want to avoid repeating the same conference with a number of students.

9 The WHY of it…  Writer’s workshop focuses on the goal of fostering life long writers.  It gives students the time they need to just write so they can gain experience.

10 Katie Wood Ray says,  “Writing workshops- where the focus is on writers who use writing to do powerful things in the world in which they live.”

11 The BENEFITS of it…  During the workshop, the teacher can instruct individual students on any apparent need.  It’s a way for students to progress as quickly or as slowly as they need to, improving different writing skills at each student's individual level.  It enables the gifted students to go deeper, have a wider range of perspective, and write impressive texts, which will encourage them to enjoy writing instead of feeling stifled or bored.

12 In a GREAT writer’s workshop…  Students are invited to do all the things a writer really does:  research  explore  collect  interview  talk  read  stare off into space  co-author  and yes, pre-write, draft, revise, edit, and publish

13 For more information…  On page 269 of our class text, there is an appendix that lists books with information about writer’s workshop.


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