writing workshop
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Silent Writing Time – 5 minutes every day
Every day, at the beginning of writing workshop, we have a 5-minute silent writing time. Sometimes, I do a mini lesson first and sometimes, we just do 5 minutes of silent writing. Afterwards, the kids go off to work on their own writing projects. Most days I’ve given my students free reign about what they Read more
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Writing Workshop – A Collaborative Writing Experience
I’m doing something different in writing workshop this year. I didn’t plan it. It just happened. Or maybe I had been planning it in my head without being aware that’s what I was doing. Or maybe, I seized the perfect moment to do this with a student, and it went so well that I ended Read more
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Student Engagement in Writing and Reading Workshop
This is the second in a series of blog posts about different strategies I use to help my students take ownership of their learning. The first post was about class meetings. Today’s post is about giving kids opportunities to determine their own writing and reading plans every Friday afternoon. (Coming soon is the third post in this Read more
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Writing Tips from a Parent
Recently, the mom of one of my students talked to our class about her work as a writer of YA books. She prepared a PowerPoint presentation using Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt as her mentor text. The following list includes some of the tips she gave the children. (1) First, it’s important to write about Read more
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Writers’ Notebooks and More
As I walked around the room during writing workshop, I noticed most of the children had no sense of what they were writing about and why they were writing about that topic. In fact, many of them seemed aimless in their writing with little energy and interest to write. Instead, they were drawing or cutting Read more
Elisa Waingort 