A Wetpaint Site | TV Fandex 100

Edison Class

Marsh Writer's Workshop

September 24, 2009 (Thursday)

What do we know about Writer's Workshop Writer's Workshop is where (hopefully) we learn techniques to help our students generate ideas and become more powerful writers. We want to gain knowledge about strategies to not only "bridge the gap" with our lower achieving students but more importantly, gain fresh perspectives on how we can make it more rigorous for our higher achieving students. In a WW we hope to finds ways to push students as well as scaffolds??? to support those who aren't "gettin it." How to get the kids from a 1-4, effectively and make the environment more rigorous. How to incorporate more rigor into our lessons when teaching the writing process. October 1, 2009 (Thursday) A: 10 second check in B: Discussion: "Reaffirming the Writing Workshop for Young Adolescents" Please do a quickwrite and answer the following questions: 1. What is the author saying about the writing workshop? The author says several things about the writing workshop. He mentions: conferencing, using poetry and lyrics, quickwrites, journaling, mimicing other authors, moving a piece to publishing, analyzing other published works and models of effective student wirting, charting, and portfolios to analyze past and present works. 2. What idea validates what you do in your classroom? All of number 1. Specifically, we tie onto the conferencing and goal setting after analyzing past student work. 3. What idea challenges what you do in the classroom? C: Steps in the Writing/Writer's workshop

What do we know about Writer's Workshop

Writer's Workshop is where (hopefully) we learn techniques to help our students generate ideas and become more powerful writers. We want to gain knowledge about strategies to not only "bridge the gap" with our lower achieving students but more importantly, gain fresh perspectives on how we can make it more rigorous for our higher achieving students. In a WW we hope to finds ways to push students as well as scaffolds??? to support those who aren't "gettin it."

How to get the kids from a 1-4, effectively and make the environment more rigorous. How to incorporate more rigor into our lessons when teaching the writing process.

October 1, 2009 (Thursday)

A: 10 second check in
B: Discussion: "Reaffirming the Writing Workshop for Young Adolescents"

Please do a quickwrite and answer the following questions:

1. What is the author saying about the writing workshop?
The author says several things about the writing workshop. He mentions: conferencing, using poetry and lyrics, quickwrites, journaling, mimicing other authors, moving a piece to publishing, analyzing other published works and models of effective student wirting, charting, and portfolios to analyze past and present works.

2. What idea validates what you do in your classroom?

All of number 1. Specifically, we tie onto the conferencing and goal setting after analyzing past student work.

3. What idea challenges what you do in the classroom?

C: Steps in the Writing/Writer's workshop

OrlandoP	Latest page update: made by OrlandoP , Oct 1 2009, 5:47 PM EDT (about this update About This Update Edited by OrlandoP 63 words added view changes - complete history)
	Keyword tags: None More Info: links to this page

Threads for this page

Post a new thread

There are no threads for this page. Be the first to start a new thread.

JavaScript must be enabled in order for you to contribute to this site.
To start contributing, enable JavaScript by changing your browser options, then try again.

Home