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Tag: writing workshop

  • Getting Started with Writing Workshop: Routines and Structures

    Getting Started with Writing Workshop: Routines and Structures

    When I work with teachers who are struggling with writing workshop, the first question I ask is, do you write with your students? And the second question is, what are your workshop routines and structures? Because most problems with workshop stem from the answer to one of those two questions. Routines in classrooms are partly…

  • Getting Started with Writing Workshop: Guiding Principles and the Writer’s Notebook

    Getting Started with Writing Workshop: Guiding Principles and the Writer’s Notebook

    I am working with a couple of new teachers who are trying to implement writing workshops in their middle-school classrooms, so I thought I would put together a few posts to collect my thinking and favorite resources about writing workshop and to invite my readers to chime in. If you’ve written a blog post about…

  • Review: Mentor Authors, Mentor Texts

    Mentor Authors, Mentor Texts would be a useful book for most classroom teachers, but especially for workshop teachers. It consists of 24 short pieces that can be used as mentor texts with students. All were written by Ralph Fletcher, and he includes “Writer’s Notes” for each piece. Most of the pieces are autobiographical, but there…