Strategies for Implementing Writer's Workshop

Strategies for Implementing Writer's Workshop
Author: Richard Gentry
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425897630

Strategies for Implementing Writer's Workshop is as research-based, easy-to-use resource that includes all the tools needed to create a successful Writer's Workshop and enhance student writing. Teachers will learn classroom-tested techniques and engaging instructional approaches to support all levels of writers. This resource provides sample mini lessons, activities, classroom snapshots, student resources, and more. Lesson plans are tailored to these specific grade spans: K-2, 3-5, 6-8.

What's Next for This Beginning Writer?

What's Next for This Beginning Writer?
Author: Janine Reid
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1551382741

This book starts with an inclusive definition of writing and suggests simple ways to introduce students to the purpose of writing. It discusses the key relationship between reading and writing, and the importance of oral language in building strong writers. Based on the work of real K-2 students, the book shows teachers how to interpret student work, identify what they know, and build naturally on the strengths their work displays. it argues for consistent teaching that includes a delicate balance between direct instruction and independent learning. Children will thrive as writers if they experience success. This book offers the tools teachers need to put that success in the hands of every young writer.

Author

Author
Author: Helen Lester
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2002-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547347871

So begins the story of Helen Lester, author of Tacky the Penguin and many other popular books for children. By sharing her struggles as a child and later as a successful author, she demonstrates that hurdles are part of the process. She even gives writing tips, such as keeping a "fizzle box." Helen Lester uses her unique ability to laugh at her mistakes to create both a guide for young writers and an amusing personal story of the disappointments and triumphs of a writer's life.

Welcome to Writing Workshop

Welcome to Writing Workshop
Author: Stacey Shubitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1625311664

Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and short focused video clips, teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where: - Both students and teachers are working authors - Students spend most of their time writing--not just learning about it- Student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones - Students are part of the formative assessment process - Students will look forward to writing time--not dread it. From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and mini-lessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.

Writing Workshop

Writing Workshop
Author: Ralph J. Fletcher
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work.

Writing Like Writers

Writing Like Writers
Author: Kathryn L. Johnson
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 159363000X

This wonderful teaching resource offers a complete approach to creating a classroom of enthusiastic, skilled student writers. Written by teachers for teachers, this volume is rich in valuable practical instructional materials to get your students writing like experts. Grades 2-6

When Writing Workshop Isn't Working

When Writing Workshop Isn't Working
Author: Mark Overmeyer
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571104046

Provides practical advice for overcoming common problems associated with teaching writing to students, and offers help in developing vocabulary skills, preparing students for standardized tests, and much more.

Come On, Rain!

Come On, Rain!
Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545347491

Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse recreates the body and soul-renewing experience of a summer downpour after a sweltering city heat wave. "Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising and joyous celebration....Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newberry medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.

Mark Writing

Mark Writing
Author: Angela Stockman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780986104930

In Make Writing, everyone's favorite education blogger and writing coach, Angela Stockman, turns teaching strategies and practice upside down. She spills you out of your chair, shreds your lined paper, and launches you and your writer's workshop into the maker space! Who even knew this was possible?

Night of the Veggie Monster

Night of the Veggie Monster
Author: George McClements
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1599900610

Every Tuesday night, while his parents try to enjoy their dinner, a boy turns into a monster the moment a pea touches his lips.