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This is a segment of a lesson plan provided in the book that we found to be particularly interesting. A semantic web can be modeled in a minilesson as a method for brainstorming. This could also be used as a way to organize the students' collective knowledge on a topic at any point of the reading process. The use of semantic webs can provide some overlap between reading and writing instruction.

"Have students brainstorm possible topics. Optionally, have them create a graphic organizer, such as a cluster or semantic web, with the topic listed in the center connected to 'satellites' around it."

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We selected the following quote to exemplify the importance of providing opportunities for independent work, small group instruction and collaboration, and whole class instruction. You can use your guided reading groups for writers workshop as well.

"Guided writing can offer instructional power during Writers Workshop. If you look at your Writers Workshop schedule, you might be able to allocate ten minutes of each workshop for one guided reading group to meet each day. These guided writing groups could be linking up to a whole class minilesson or offering an advanced lesson on voice in informational text. Like guided reading, the goal is to observe learners closely and then match instruction to need while you are close by to provide intense and personal support."

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an interdisciplinary writing technique which can build students' fluency in writing through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing.

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Standard - CC.1.4.2.A

Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

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Standard - CC.1.4.2.E

Choose words and phrases for effect.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfuXj2TRBU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttlKQAoWBKk

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https://www.pinterest.com/mariah_hadley/writers-workshop/

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https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2016/08/12/using-digital-enhancements-in-writing-workshops

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An additional writing workshop resource from NCTE

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An additional writing workshop resource from NCTE

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Non-Member Price: $31.95

NCTE Member Price: $23.95

Author(s): Katie Wood Ray, Lester Laminack

This book is a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.

Level(s): Elementary, Middle

ISBN/ISSN: 9780814113172

Stock No.: 13176

Description

In The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray offers a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers really do is engage in a complex, multi-layered, slippery process to produce texts. The book confronts the challenge of this teaching head-on, with chapters on all aspects of the writing workshop, including:

day-to-day instruction (e.g., lesson planning, conferring, assessment and evaluation, share time, focus lessons, and independent writing)

classroom management (e.g., pacing and scheduling, managing the predictable distractions, and understanding the slightly out-of-hand feeling of the workshop)

intangibles (e.g., the development of writing identities and the tone of workshop teaching)

The Writing Workshop is a book about being articulate-being able to think through what we are doing as we are doing it so that we can improve our practice. It's a book to go back to when things are getting hard. A book that helps us think through, "Now why was I doing this?" Woven between the chapters on teaching are the voices of published writers, followed by short commentaries from Lester L. Laminack. These voices remind us how writers do what they do, thus lending authenticity to what Katie Wood Ray shows us in the classroom, and thoughtfully helping us frame our instruction to match the complex process of writing.

278 pp. 2001. Grades 3-8. ISBN 10: 0-8141-1317-6; ISBN 13: 978-0-8141-1317-2.

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Writing Workshop, The: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

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Non-Member Price: $31.95 NCTE Member Price: $23.95 Author(s): Katie Wood Ray, Lester Laminack This book is a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPRM2ZXyrS0