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Beyond the Launch -- Planning the Writer's Workshop All Year Long

Workshop Overview
After you’ve devised a plan to launch your writer’s workshop during the first weeks of school, the next step is to look ahead toward the rest of the year. This one-day workshop is designed to guide K-8 teachers through the planning of a year-long writing curriculum, incorporating mini-lessons, literature, and assessment within a variety of writing units. Kristina will provide lesson plan examples for several writing units, then she’ll reveal her framework for developing any writing unit on your own.

Training Topics

• Activities to utilize whenever you introduce a new writing genre to students
• Ways to incorporate student anchor papers and kid-friendly rubrics within a unit
• Procedures for selecting which writing standards to target within a writing unit
• Strategies for teaching a writing skill over multiple days to deepen student understanding and gradually release responsibility to the students
• Ways to integrate grammar study throughout the year
• Strategies to balance free choice writing and prompted writing assignments
• Strategies to balance first drafts along with final-draft pieces
• Suggestions for grading student writing and assessing students’ understanding of a genre

When you leave you’ll be able to:

• Organize your grade level writing standards and grammar skills within writing units throughout the year
• Plan mini-lessons and corresponding independent activities to develop students’ writing skills
• Take one mini-lesson and develop it into a multi-day series that gradually releases the responsibility to the students
• Plan your writing units to give students experience writing both free-choice final drafts and no-choice first drafts (prompts)
• Speed up or slow down any writing unit to meet the needs of your writers
• Target isolated skills within intermittent “maintenance mini-lessons” throughout the year

$175.00    Early Bird Registration

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