"Take charge of your writing curriculum with The Complete K-5 Writing Workshop, and create a rich, balanced learning environment that simultaneously supports standards while focusing on what is meaningful and effective for students. With this comprehensive and well-organized resource, author and veteran educator Susan Koehler starts with the history of writing instruction, leading K-5 teachers through the writing process and assessment. You'll learn what to do with detailed information on creating a successful writing workshop—including writer's and teacher's notebooks, management tips, and publishing projects—and what to teach with a list of writing-craft skills and genre instruction guidelines that form the content of writing instruction. An extensive appendix provides rubrics, checklists, planners, graphic organizers, practice sheets, activities, and more to use in your classrooms today. By uniting process and skills, we can maintain a systematic approach to instruction while reviving learner engagement and rediscovering the joy of teaching writing."
While initiating students into the structures and rituals of the writing workshop, this unit also reviews and teaches the essentials of writing-collecting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
Whether writers write just a few labels on items in their pictures or write paragraphs, by the end of this unit all children know that in order to write, a writer fills him or herself with an idea, plans how the text will go, and then draws ...
From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and minilessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.
-Lucy Calkins Teaching Writing is Lucy Calkins at her best-a distillation of the work that's placed Lucy and her colleagues at the forefront of the teaching of writing for over thirty years.
Casey and I were in the middle of all of this when we made the best of a rainy day. The day started off boring. I had nothing to do so I called Casey. She answered and after we had a chat we agree to have her come over to my house.
come in the form of a list of techniques that students can refer to as they make writing choices (see the previous ... this list from her notebook under the document camera and students choose from this list as they write and revise.
This is unit 1 of the series is intended for Grade K"--
In this practical, engaging book, former elementary school teacher and university professor Brian Kissel asks teachers to go back to the roots of writing workshop.
This book shares practical and effective techniques for accommodating reading and writing instruction to design learning that simultaneously increases literacy and language development.
Offers advice to teachers on how to set up writing workshops in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, describing ten writing workshop strategies, and featuring tips on how to include parents in the writing program.