The Write Way: Teach the Writer, Not the Writing

INSTRUCTOR(S): Jennie Gries, Park School, Kaukauna, WI
GRADE LEVEL: K-2
SUBJECT: Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Students can be successful when they are provided with high quality, differentiated instruction.  Our job as teachers of writing is to create classroom environments that maximize engagement and learning.  The Writing Workshop will focus on the Units of Study for Primary Writer: Yearlong Curriculum written by Lucy Calkins.  The units of study include Launching the Workshop, Small Moments: Personal Narratives, Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies, Craft of Revision, Authors as Mentors, Nonfiction: Procedures and Reports and Poetry: Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages.

Participants will learn how to write strategic mini-lessons, confer with students, assess student writing and plan monthly units of study.  This course will offer organizational techniques to develop a structured workshop so your students are writing independently while you are conferring.  The participants will be actively involved in the writing process.  This course includes student writing samples, sample anchor charts, and hands-on materials to prepare participants to implement the workshop in their classroom.  this course is a fun-filled, energizing, "intense" training of Writing Workshop!

"She will learn to love the way words dance across the paper.  The way stories rest in the pocket of her heart.  She will remember you forever as the one who gave her the moon." (Ellen Kort)

 

Wisconsin State Teacher Standards Addressed: 1,3,4,7,8
Wisconsin Model Academic Standards Addressed: English B,D