Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works / Edition 1

by Lynne Dorfman, Stacey Shubitz

Overview

Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and short focused video clips, teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where:

• Both students and teachers are working authors

• Students spend most of their time writing—not just learning about it• Student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones

• Students are part of the formative assessment process

• Students will look forward to writing time—not dread it.

From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and mini-lessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625311665
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/29/2019
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	7 - 13 Years

About the Author

Stacey Shubitz is an author, independent literacy consultant, and a graduate of The Literacy Specialist Program at Teachers College. She is the Chief of Operations and Lead Writer for Two Writing Teachers, a popular blog about the teaching of writing.

Lynne Dorfman was a literacy coach for the Upper Moreland School District in Pennsylvania where she taught for 38 years. She serves the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project as a codirector and is an adjunct professor at Arcadia University.

Table of Contents

Foreword xv

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction xxvii

Chapter 1 What Is Writing Workshop? 1

Chapter 2 The "Write" Environment 19

Creating Our Classrooms

Chapter 3 A Community Of Writers 41

The Ingredients for Building and Sustaining Success

Chapter 4 Classroom Management 57

Practical Procedures and Predictable Routines

Chapter 5 Whole-Class Instruction 73

Setting a Positive Tone and Building Enthusiasm

Chapter 6 Independent Writing Time 89

The Importance of Giving Students Time to Write

Chapter 7 Conferring 95

Individualize Instruction, Build Community, and Set Goals

Chapter 8 Small-Group Instruction 123

High Value, High Reward

Chapter 9 Share Sessions 137

Engaging All Writers to Support a Thriving Community

Chapter 10 Strategic Instruction In Grammar, Conventions, And Spelling 149

Afterword 167

Appendices

Appendix A Chapter 1 170

A List of Student Expectations 170

Appendix B Chapter 3 171

Welcome to Writing Workshop Survey 171

Appendix C Chapter 4 172

Time-Savers 172

Appendik D Chapter 7 173

Sample Record-Keeping Forms 173

Conference Transcript with Alayna 177

Appendix E Chapter 10 180

Spelling Strategies Self-Assessment 180

References 181

Index 189

Editorial Reviews

Readers of Welcome to Writing Workshop will find themselves in sure hands. Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman know classrooms and young writers inside and out. The authors clearly explain the workshop, and how it differs from traditional teaching. The inclusion of short, punchy video clips makes this resource-friendly and enormously practical.”

– Ralph Fletcher, author of Joy Write: Cultivating High-Impact, Low-Stakes Writing

“If you’re looking for ways to infuse new life into your writing workshop or a lifeline to get started, Welcome to Writing Workshop is for you. Stacey and Lynne share practical, quick, and doable ways to make the research-based writing process work in your classroom.”

– Jeff Anderson, author of Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language, Grades 1-5

“In a treasure chest of every imaginable detail, Stacey and Lynne show teachers, no matter where they are in this journey, how to transform writing workshop into the child-focused process it was always meant to be.”

– Mary Howard, Literacy Consultant and author of Good to Great Teaching

From the Publisher

If you’re looking for ways to infuse new life into your writing workshop or a lifeline to get started, Welcome to Writing Workshop is for you. Stacey and Lynne share practical, quick, and doable ways to make the research-based writing process work in your classroom.” – Jeff Anderson, author of Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language, Grades 1-5

Back Cover - Jeff Anderson

Readers of Welcome to Writing Workshop will find themselves in sure hands. Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman know classrooms and young writers inside and out. The authors clearly explain the workshop, and how it differs from traditional teaching. The inclusion of short, punchy video clips makes this resource-friendly and enormously practical.” – Ralph Fletcher, author of Joy Write: Cultivating High-Impact, Low-Stakes Writing

Back Cover - Ralph Fletcher

In a treasure chest of every imaginable detail, Stacey and Lynne show teachers, no matter where they are in this journey, how to transform writing workshop into the child-focused process it was always meant to be.” – Mary Howard, Literacy Consultant and author of Good to Great Teaching

Back Cover - Mary Howard