A Teacher's Guide to Writing Workshop Essentials: Time, Choice, Response, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (March 28, 2020) © 2020

  • Katherine Bomer
  • Corinne Aren

Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780325099729
A Teacher's Guide to Writing Workshop Essentials: Time, Choice, Response
Published 2020

Title overview

In this foundational guide, Katherine Bomer and Corinne Arens describe the elegant simplicity of a Writing Workshop focused on just three essentials - time, choice, and response.

Based on the research-based belief that children learn to write best when we provide a predictable, daily structure for writing, Katherine and Corinne introduce teachers to the rituals and routines of writing workshop and suggest ways to take small, incremental steps toward implementing them. Shared from the viewpoint of two veteran educators who understand the issues and obstacles teachers face day to day, A Teacher's Guide to Writing Workshop Essentials also serves as a refresher for experienced workshop teachers looking for a chance to refocus, clarify, and extend the work in their practice. If your teaching has become more complicated and more focused on curriculum than on the writers sitting in front of you, if you're not sure what your students really need to support them as writers, or if you're just not sure how to get started with Writing Workshop, this guide is for you.

About the series

The Classroom Essentials series was created to provide pre-service and veteran teachers with a fresh new look at foundational, student-centred practices. Each book in the series focuses on one essential practice, along with all the information you need to get started trying it - or refining it - in your own classroom right away. With highly visual designs, classroom videos, online resources, teacher tips and more, Classroom Essentials books offer a uniquely engaging and contemporary reading experience for today's busy teachers.

Table of contents

  • Part One: Writing Workshop Essentials
  • Writing Workshop Structure
  • Part Two: Time
  • Working In Time
  • What Students Do in the Writing 'Bubble of Time'
  • What Teachers Do in the Writing 'Bubble of Time'
  • Predictable Time Matters
  • Work That Extend Across Time
  • Protecting Writing Workshop Time
  • Benefits of Breaking Out of the 'Bubble'
  • Writing Workshop and Multilingual Students
  • Part Three: Choice
  • Understanding Decision Making
  • Choice Matters
  • Possibilities for Maximizing Student Choice
  • Starting with Choice Right From the Start
  • Writing Workshop and Multilingual Students
  • Part Four: Response
  • Response Matters
  • Structures and Routines for Daily Response
  • Teaching Students About the Give and Take of Response
  • Extending Response Beyond the Walls of the Classroom
  • Writing Workshop and Multilingual Students
  • Part Five: Time, Choice, and Response Across a School Year
  • What You Will Likely See Early in the Year
  • What You Will Likely See as the Year Progresses
  • 'I'm the Kind of Writer Who…'

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