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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication and About the Author; Table of Contents; Free Downloads; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Fundamentals of the Writing Workshop; What Is a Writing Workshop?; Why Establish a Writing Workshop?; Major Tools of the Writing Workshop; A Final Note; Chapter 2 Using Mentor Texts to Create Curriculum; Welcome to My Library: Creating a Curriculum; Here We Go; There Is No Real Curriculum for Writing; So Many Books, So Little Time: A Specific Study; Going from Specific Craft to General Craft; How Many Mini-Lessons Per Unit of Study?; Let's Go Back to Specific |
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Finding Time for the LessonsA Few Final Thoughts About Curriculum; Student Samples of Study; Chapter 3 Practicing in the Writer's Notebook; What Is the Purpose of the Writer's Notebook?; Make the Most of Every Page; Possible Charts for the Notebook; Tabbing Important Pages; Decorating the Notebooks; Guidelines But Not Boundaries; "I Have Nothing to Write About!"; Teachers Must Keep Notebooks; When Do We Use the Writer's Notebook?; Using the Notebook During Independent Writing; Notebook Expectations; Mentor Texts for Getting Started in the Notebook |
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Lessons for Practicing in the Writer's NotebookQuotes for Enhancing the Practicing Lessons; Chapter 4 Collecting and Selecting Ideas in the Writer's Notebook; Step One: Collecting; Lesson Sample: Collecting for Narrative Writing; Lesson Sample: Collecting for Expository Writing; Why Collect? Choice Equals Voice; Beginning the Process in Your Own Classroom; Selecting: Narrowing Down the Options; Making It Real: Real Authors Collect and Select; Additional Narrative Collecting Lessons; Additional Collecting Lessons for Expository Essays; Chapter 5 Marinating; Marinating: The Bridge to Drafting |
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Exactly How Do Students Marinate?Another Reason to Marinate; A Note on Marinating; A Closer Look at the Strategies Used for Marinating; A Final Thought; Chapter 6 Drafting and Sharing; We Are Ready to Draft; Step One: The Down Draft; Step Two: The Up Draft; The Crucial Step of Sharing; Picking Writing Partners; Making the Most of Sharing; A Moment to Discuss Writer's Block; Closing Thoughts; Chapter 7 Ideas for Revision; Where Do I Start?; Considering What to Teach; Lesson on "Brilliant Beginnings"; Another Sample Lesson; Brainstorming Mini-Lessons for Revising; The Hover Moment |
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Tying Books into My Revising Mini-LessonsA Guide to Keep You Organized; A Final Note; Chapter 8 Polishing, Publishing, and Portfolios; The Final Frontier; Polishing Up by Editing; Formal Publication; Informal Publication; Areas for Editing; Proofreading Marks; A Student Checklist; Helpful Hints; Acronyms for Editing; Thoughts on Spelling; Points to Remember; Publishing and Celebrating; Resources for Children's Writing and Publishing; Supplies for the Publishing Center; Self-Reflecting on Writing; Process and Product Portfolios; Recording Sheets; A Little More About Self-Reflection |
| Summary |
Master teacher Lisa Morris invites you to share her secrets of success with writer's workshops. After years of experimenting with the workshop model, she has developed the most effective ways to apply it in the classroom, yielding higher test scores and increased student engagement. Through practical, step-by-step instruction, Morris demonstrates how to use writer's notebooks, mentor texts, the writing process, and the 6 traits. Specific topics include: setting up the classroom for workshops; creating a writing curriculum; creating guidelines, expectations, and lessons for using notebooks; hel |
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Chapter 9 Conferencing with Confi dence |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317925101 |
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1317925106 |
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