Reading for strickland& strickland and Ray

How to study with the writing workshop

UNITS OF WRITING

- What are my strengths as a teacher of writing

-What have my students studied before in writing

-What are my students interested in? What do they want to know as writers?

-What are my colleagues studying in their writing workshops?

-What resources do i have?

-For what kind of writing will my students be held accountable?

Several of the units of study are the same at both the upper grades and lower grades. Its good to get the first graders to fifth graders to be able to read text like writers.

Daily Focus lessons should be used all the time because it can open them with more ideas with writing. A good focus lesson is very clear with the objective.

Part of the lesson

- a quote of advice

- an example from a published

- a piece of student writing

- a piece of the teacher's writing

- a story or a metaphore

- a report on a conference

- some public writing

How to get students involved in the lesson

TIME

A good way to get students involved is to have them talk together with their classmates about their outside work. Time is such a big factor in the workshop because you have to get everything done that matters.

According to strickland and strickland " conferring can also be so much fun, so satisfying".

Conferences need to always be kept short.

Four Parts of a writing conference

Research

Decide

Teach

Make a Record

The driving requirements of a professional writers life is to publish or perish...

Publishing is your writing is accepted, finished and available to the public

Reading and Literature

Having a interview you can get great information out of the student. You can get them to fill out a survey or have a writing conference. Reading logs is where the student writes down the titles, authors and perhaps genres of books that they have read... Teaching reading with connecting with literature is where if the student reads and connects it will be alot easier for them to understand it. A good way to get the students experiencing success with reading is using the jigsaw's. Literature Circles QUESTIONER, SUMMARIZER,CONNECTOR,LITERARY LUMINARY,ILLUSTRATOR, RESEARCHER these teach the students to have roles and responsibility's.