I teach first grade and am wanting to start teaching writers workshop…help!!?
I have heard a lot about it and how good it is just don’t know where to start. I wish someone had like a step by step do this day 1, day 2, etc. Can anyone help?
I’m actually planning on using writing workshop this year and have been researching it. You won’t necessarily find day 1, day 2, step-by-step, but there are lots of great resources that will help you. Lucy Calkins is one of the “big names” in workshop, and she’s an elementary teacher. Her book is _The Art of Teaching Writing_. _Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide_ by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalup is an excellent resource for the basics of getting started. You should also try _The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They’re All Hard Parts)_ by Katie Ray Wood.
Donald Graves is one of the pioneers of writing workshop, however, I’ve geared more of my research to Nancie Atwell, who is a middle school teacher.
Try the following two publishing companies. They’re publishers of all kinds of literature resources for teachers, especially writing workshop. You can look the books up on Amazon.com, too. They’ll be cheaper through Amazon.
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/home.htm
http://heinemann.com/
Good luck!
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A Quick Guide to Teaching Second-Grade Writers with Units of Study (Workshop Help Desk Grade 2) $8.04 In A Quick Guide to Teaching Second Grade Writers with Units of Study Lucy Calkins chronicles a curricular calendar that will help teachers increase the volume of student writing; encourage students to lift the level of their writing by reviwing, rethinking, and rewriting their work; and empower students to write with greater independence. A Quick Guide to Teaching Second Grade Writers with Units… |
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Tools for Writing: Creating Writer’s Workshops for Grades 2-8 $10.38 A series of teacher-friendly lessons designed to create a writers’ workshop for pupils aged between seven and 13 years is contained in this step-by-step guide. The lessons range from introducing the terminology and methods of a writers’ workshop to students to complex processes in creative and journalistic writing. Using the praise, questions and polish (PQP) strategies, each 10- to 15-minute less… |
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Kids Explore Kids Who Make a Difference (Kids Explore Series) $9.95 Features young people who have made a difference in their own lives and in the lives of those around them…. |
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Writers Workshop of Horror $14.32 Writers Workshop of Horror |
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First Grade Writers $21.48 What readers will love about this book is that it offers big-picture understandings of teaching, then it zooms in and offers the details of that teaching. – Katie Wood Ray, author of About the AuthorsFirst graders have no shortage of ideas. The hard part for them is putting thoughts together into a cohesive draft. Organizing and planning for writing defy simple description and aren’t easily modeled for students, making them challenging topics to convey to young children. Where do you find the language and tactics to teach these subtle processes?With First Grade Writers, Stephanie Parsons will change how you think about teaching the thinking behind writing. Parsons outlines five specific units of study for your writing workshop that help students prepare thoughtfully to write. Beginning with a September unit specially designed to introduce the writing workshop to first graders and build a classroom community that supports risk taking and learning, each successive unit builds upon the previous one and fosters independence. By June your students will know how to plan for writing out loud and on paper, leading to elegant, well-structured pieces. The units also help children to differentiate the planning and organization needed to write:fictionpersonal narrativenonfiction Q & A bookspattern books. Best of all, First Grade Writers is corner-of-the-desk practical with concise, logically laid-out descriptions of how each unit of study operates, a variety of helpful tables, charts, and assessment diagnostics, as well as elaborations, teaching points for minilessons and conferences, troubleshooting tips, and month-by-month planning assistance. If you’re new to first grade, Stephanie Parsons will give you ideas for top-notch teaching that will be invaluable as you establish your first writing workshop. If you’re a veteran, the units in First Grade Writers will augment your existing workshop and help your students clearly conceptualize what high-quality writing looks like. Either way, you’ll help them write better by thinking about the thinking behind good writing. |
