Writing Workshop: Teaching Writers with a Workshop Approach
Teachers, learn how to establish a Writing Workshop within a classroom (grades 2-10) to promote growth with writers.
Description
Teachers: Join me in exploring the powerful context of Writing Workshop!
If you're looking for ideas for engaging your students in writing or you're interested in learning (more) about the potential of Writing Workshop, this course is for you. Your students from 2nd through 10th grade deserve to engage in meaningful writing opportunities in order to build their toolboxes in generative ways.
You'll learn about supporting writers through practices that include writer talks, planting seeds in writer's notebooks, writing minilessons, independent writing, writing conferences, guided writing, and sharing time. Learn about 5 types of writing minilessons, and engage with multiple clear and concise examples. I'll demonstrate minilessons that utilize mentor texts as models of writing behaviors, and we'll explore several anchor charts created in classrooms. We will explore the writing process and you'll learn about tools that support writers as they learn to take risks and develop their understandings relative to craft, conventions, genre, and the writing process.
Writing Workshop offers opportunities for teachers to meet the needs of writers within various groupings: whole group minilessons, small group guided writing, and one on one conferences, and we'll explore each. I'll share a range of tools that include a writing process work board, a writing conference form, and a list of writer's notebook prompts that you can download and use tomorrow. I'll also share lots of examples based on over 25 years of experience teaching writers of all ages and teachers of writers as well!
You'll find this course to be engaging, clear, informative, and practical. Whether you've never taught writing within a workshop approach or you've been teaching many years and wish to add something new to your repertoire, you'll gain new insights from our professional learning sessions.
What You Will Learn!
- Glean an overview of the course and learn about the structure of Writing Workshop.
- Learn about the practice and benefits of writer talks and writer’s notebooks in order to promote a writerly life with writers.
- Define the types of writing minilessons; learn about using mentor texts; learn to plan writing minilessons.
- Learn to support writers within independent writing, conferences, and the writing process.
- Learn to bring closure to the Writing Workshop through Sharing Time.
- Synthesize with your own practice and set goals for next steps.
Who Should Attend!
- Teachers of children from 2nd through 10th grade will benefit from this course.
- The class is intended for teachers from novice to more experienced, desiring to learn about the workshop approach.