Workshop+Overview

[] = Overview of Workshop, adapted from __Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide__ by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi = = =

Sample Schedule for 90 minutes Reading and Writing Workshop:

 * ==5 minute bellringer/engaging warm-up==
 * ==5-10 minute Tier II vocabulary preview==

(could take place of bellringer in some cases)
=(reading conferences and flexible groups take place during this time)=
 * ==10-15 minute reading mini-lesson==
 * =15-30 minute reading workshop: guided/independent reading practice with literature circle and/or MIRP books=
 * =10-15 minute word-study=
 * =10-15 minute grammar or craft mini-lesson=
 * =15-30 minute writing workshop=

(writing conferences and flexible groups take place during this time)

 * ==5-10 minute small group or whole group sharing==

Space Considerations for Workshop:

 * ==Whole Group==
 * ==Small-Group==
 * ==Conferences==

II. Launching the Workshop "A Writer is someone who makes decisions....How will you begin?" (35).

 * == Model Writer's/Reader's Notebook ==
 * == Prototype of Writing Folder ==
 * == Students Create a Writing Inventory ==
 * == Classroom Norms for writing, reading, sharing, thinking ==
 * == Diagnostic Assessments for flexible groups, such as the BEAR inventory and reading and writing pre-assessments ==
 * ==Teaching Students to become Rhetorically Aware:==
 * ==The author does___to____................I can use__ in my writing to__.==

Good writers separate composing from transcription:

 * ** Revision ** || ** Editing ** ||
 * Change lead || Spelling ||
 * Resequence || Punctuation ||
 * Add a section || Paragraphing ||
 * Prune/Cut || Capital Letters ||
 * Focus on a part ||  ||
 * Focus on a part ||  ||

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IV.The Writing __Cycle__

 * == Prewriting is perhaps the MOST important and most neglected part of the process... ==
 * Drafting
 * Revising
 * Editing
 * Publishing

V. Mentor Texts
==Excerpts from literature circle texts, short stories, plays, films, primary sources, historical documents, blogs, newspaper articles, websites, science and technical articles, photographs, artwork, read-alouds, picture books, etc.==