Awakening Brilliance in the Writer's Workshop
Synopsis
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
helping students select ideas, brainstorm, and plan
assigning writing partners and organizing sharing
getting students to self-reflect
creating process and product portfolios
finding resources for publishing
holding effective writing conferences
The book also offers an array of invaluable tools, such as
student writing samples
mini-lessons for each stage of the writing process
lesson plans
pacing guides for dividing your time during the workshop
sample charts to help you stay organized
suggested classroom guidelines and handouts
a list of mentor texts, organized by what you can use them to teach (e.g., adjectives, alliteration, onomatopoeia, beginnings, endings, strong verbs, sensory details)
quotations on each stage of the writing process to motivate students
- प्रतिलिपि अधिकार:
- 2012 Routledge
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781317925095
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 2020-02-15T04:30:28Z
- भाषा:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.