Writer's Workshop
This year, our district will officially be adapting a Writer's Workshop approach to writing.
Young writers become more powerful when they are armed with a “toolbox” of strategies.
We want every student to become an author and realize their potential as a writer.
Your child will write with more confidence, success, and ease when they are faced
with a blank piece of paper. I am really looking forward to implementing this
individualized approach to wirting this year!
What is it all about?
The most important focus of this curriculum is to turn your child into a writer and it takes place in an environment where children do all the things authors really do:
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Write what matters to them- check out this practice activity on our classroom website to see what this means!
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Understand the strategies they need to draft, revise, edit, and publish
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Effectively put language to use
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Write to a specific audience, with purpose
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Apply correct conventions and form
What will Writers’ Workshop give your child?
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Time to write, in an environment that encourages written expression
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Ownership of his/her “product”; children are encouraged to write about things they know and care about
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Response, with frequent individual student-teacher conferences
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The foundation for good writing
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A lasting framework for writing
For each writing project, we will work through the stages of the writing process:
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Choosing a topic
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Drafting and illustrating
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Responding and revising
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Proofreading and editing
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Publishing
Each Writers’ Workshop session consists of these elements:
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Mini-lesson about good writing
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Writing block time
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Individual student-teacher conference
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Sharing time
Learn more here.
