Experts believe that writing workshops are an excellent way to get elementary school children interested in writing and setting the stage for a lifelong joy of writing. Lucy Calkins developed Writer’s Workshop which was based on many positions taken by her mentor Donald Graves (Feinberg 2). She identified six major components of the Writer’s Workshop, which make it so successful. The six components are: predictable structure, free choice, useful mini-lessons, daily independent writing time, conferencing with teachers and peers and modeling good writing.
Lucy Calkins described the writing workshop as a deliberate predictable environment with three basic components: teaching time, writing time and sharing time (Rog 2). Children need structure
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Mini-lessons should be given 2 – 3 times a week and fall into three categories: procedures, strategies writers use, and qualities of good writing (Peba 68). Ms. Calkins called these lessons mini-lessons because they are brief and focused. Her belief is that most of the writing workshop time should be focused on the children writing. (Rog 2). Regie Routman has suggested to calling mini-lessons “Focus Lessons” because they focus the class on a single issue (Peha 4).
Furthermore to make the Writer’s Workshop successful the students must have intensive and daily independent writing time. During that time the children will work on tasks they learned in the mini-lesson. Some of the writing time should be silent thinking and writing time, while the other time can be quiet writing times when the students can talk in soft voices. Students should always know they are never finish writing in writing workshop, they either work on a draft, revise pieces, or start a new writing (Rog
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Ms. Calkins calls these conferences as “one of the most powerful ways of differentiation writing instruction and improving writing proficiency, because they provide us with the opportunity to offer individualized instruction at the point of need” (Rog 8). There are three main types of teacher conferences: “quick “status-of-the-day” conferences to determine each student’s plan for the day, “TAG” conferences for revisions, and editing conferences for final polishing before publishing (Lori Jamison Rog 8). All these conferences are designed to help the student to improve their
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This artifact is a lesson plan I designed for a second grade class teaching grammar, writing, reading comprehension, connections to art, and project presentation that demonstrates my ability to support and expand each learner’s expression in speaking, writing, and other media. The lesson begins with grammar instruction, guided practice, and individual practice, which expands the learner’s writing skills. The learner’s writing expression is also supported through guided practice during the ‘Checking for Understanding’ section of the plan and expanded through the challenge of creative writing in the ‘Independent Practice’ section. I support each learner’s speaking skills by grading each student at or slightly above his or her level during the
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Each student can vocalize what they are working on that day to keep them responsible and on task. Topic Search Conference: This is when students have a conference individually or as a small group and discuss potential projects/interests to pursue. The teacher can record and then give the list to the student when it’s finished. Read Aloud Conference: Student will read their work aloud to the teacher and fix their mistakes or add ideas to their writing. Sometimes teachers will read the student’s work aloud back to them in order for the student to hear the reading from a different tone.
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The experts and teachers featured in this segment know that students' lives are a rich source of inspiration. When children know that their families and cultures are respected and that they can freely explore their interests and passions, they find reasons to write in their own experience. In the video segment, Christine Sanchez honors her students' heritage by beginning the writing workshop with a Navajo greeting. Silvia Edgerton shows respect for her fifth-graders' culture and language through her positive responses to their purposeful use of Spanish within their English writing.
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Students work in groups during some of these activities and independently during others. The writing workshop usually starts off with a lesson from the teacher and then breaks up into independent writing time where students respond to a writing prompt, works on a poetry lesson, or tries to further develop some specific writing skill. The word work workshop is designed to help young readers become more fluent by familiarizing them with phonics, vocabulary, and word-awareness. The overall structure of this model usually begins with 10 minutes of a read-aloud session, 15-20 minutes of a lesson, 30-45 minutes of a literacy station (which can be either a reading or writing workshop), 10-20 minutes of a guided reading with each group, and ends with about 20 minutes of word work. Of course the times and order can vary but, in general, the model includes at least one of each of these at some point during the
The writing class session I observed is a packaged program in which the students have been participating in for 5 months. They all know the routine of the reading and writing workshop and understand “the Daily 5.” The student’s movements are purposeful and there is little time wasted in transitions. The books used by students become more complicated as the students ability strengthens. At the end of the workshop, Mrs. Rammond praised those students who used their time efficiently during “the Daily 5.” She spoke directly to the students who wrote in their journals and asked them to share their entries. The students learned some new trivia about insects, practiced writing and then had some time for art.