Each Writer's Workshop will start with a short 5- 15 minute whole group lesson about either a 6 + 1 writing trait, a genre of writing, a step in the writing process, or anything that students are struggling with. This list is not comprehensive and can be added to as student need arises.
Establishing Writers Workshop
Establishing Writers Workshop
- Where can we write during WW?
- What we do in WW.
- When is WW?
- How to appropriately ask questions/make comments/share ideas.
- How to work productively with a partner.
- How to get help when I need it.
- What does talk in the WW sound like?
- What do we do when we're finished?
- How do we come prepared for conferences with our teacher and our peers?
- How do we use technology to publish?
- How to set up our WN.
- Choosing a topic
- Using our experiences to help us develop an idea.
- Staying focused on one topic.
- Writing from the heart.
- Making idea lists in our WN.
- How to use our idea lists to develop a topic.
- The big idea.
- Add details.
- How we assess for ideas.
- Reading the voice of a piece.
- Literature with voice.
- Using punctuation to convey voice.
- What writing with a strong/weak voice looks like.
- How we assess for voice.
- Taking vocal risks
- How do we organize our pieces?
- Transition words.
- What a good paragraph looks like.
- Logical sequencing.
- Beginning Middle End.
- How we assess for organization.
- What good/bad organization looks like.
- Said is dead.
- Vivid verbs
- Similes, metaphors, analogies.
- Striking language.
- Exact language.
- Natural language.
- Beautiful language.
- Painting word pictures.
- Is more always better?
- What good/bad word choice looks like.
- How we assess for word choice.
- Hearing fluent writing.
- Varying sentence beginnings.
- Rhythm.
- Connecting words.
- Run-ons and fragments.
- Does it sound good?
- What good/bad sentence fluency looks like.
- How we assess for sentence fluency.
- Editing and revising.
- Spelling strategies.
- Using a dictionary.
- Punctuation.
- Homophones
- What good/bad conventions look like.
- How we assess for conventions.
- White space.
- Neat handwriting.
- Using digital means of presentation.
- Matching illustrations to text.
- How to share your piece.
- What good/bad presentation looks like.
- How we assess for presentation.