Askew winning writers workshop 2012

Polly Vaughan

Marla Robertson

Literacy

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Writing

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Reading is breathing in.

Writing is breathing out.

Lucy Calkins

Literacy

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Writer’s Workshop works because it is based on the idea that students learn to write best when they write frequently, for extended periods of time, on topics of their own choosing.

Students write more Each student in the class is considered to be a working author

with the intent of perfecting their craft and publishing their works.

Students decide writing isn’t as difficult as they have been lead to believe.

The teacher is a writing professional and peer coach, guiding authors as they explore their craft.

Students begin to enjoy writing. Students gain a disposition to write and gain an understanding

of the mechanics of writing in such a way that is not mechanical.

Choose their own topics Write at their individual pace Writing notebook Mini-lessons Conferencing Publishing Always writing

The overall intent of writing workshop is to help students learn what it means

to be a writer – how writers think, plan, compose, review, and share their

work.

• Class Book• Letter to family/friend• Student writing collection• Writing Wall• Student published book• Paper chain story

Nobody can make us write what we don’t want to write. ~

William Zinsser, On Writing Well

• Teacher & Student

• Students

• Teachers

• Guest authors

• Students• Teacher

Mini-lesson

Students Writing

Teacher/Peer

Conferences

Share/

Author’s Chair

Conceive Craft Correct

Improve students writing through the entire process

Writing Process

6 Traits

Analytic WritingContinuum

Sentence FluencyDiction (Language)ConventionsContentStructureStance

Mentor Texts

Class Projects/Content Areas

TAPP

Establish guidelines

Students remember little about writing tips and techniques, but they will remember their teacher’s passion for writing and their teacher’s faith in them as writers. Students need to come to believe in themselves as writers.

(Fletcher & Portalupi, 2001)

Two good thoughts one correction.

What are you working on?

Can you read me some of what you’ve got?

How is your writing coming along?

Is there anything I can help you with?

Who are you trying to reach?

Have you read over it yourself and made corrections?

What are you going to do next?

"All learning involves conversation. The ongoing dialogue, internal and external, that occurs as we read, write, listen, compose, observe, refine, interpret, and analyze is how we learn"

-Regie Routman

Students should always be writing!

• I Am…• Personal Red and Green

Journals• Topic Journals – Mini

scrapbooks• Core writing

• Prediction journals• Add a line books –

ongoing to help with writer’s block

• On-line publishing• Blogs• Classroom anthologies

I found it amazingto see my words insomething other then my own handwriting”

-Maison

• What I Did Last Summer Class Book

• Shared Writing – First Day of School

• All About Me Book• Bio Poem• Tell Me About My Name• All the Place to Love Story• Guess What Happened to Me• Christmas (Holiday)

Traditions• I Wonder Book

www.glogster.com

www.realewriter.com

www.flipsnack.com

voicethread.com

Photostory (on Microsoft)

Barcode with audio

Webpages

• Poetry Book (BARE Books)• Book of writing throughout the

year (StudentTreasures)• Caldecott book report• Newspaper group project• Longer story broken up into

pages for a book (StudentTreasures)

• Science or Social Studies project (Powerpoint shared with other classes)

• 3rd grade• Struggling

reader• Foster child

http://www.flipsnack.com/my-flipping-books/details/?flip=3bf5dbc72d2342b84178bf0d4q442978

We need to meet our students where they are not make them come to us. Our students understand and use technology everyday and love to use technology in the classroom.

Mindmaps

Website builders

Prezi

Timeline generators Read Write Think Timeliner

Comic and Cartoon generators for graphic novel Strip GeneratorToonDoo Witty Comics

Publishing The Apprentice Writer Bookworm Storykit Stapleless Book The Write Kids

Graphic design generators for illustrations

Avatars in simulation games where stories come to life

Polly Vaughan

Marla Robertson

Literacy

Reading

Writing

Listening

Speaking