Writing Workshop

Writing and reading are linked to one another. Our goal is to create an authentic program for your child in which the students begin to "read like writers" and "write like readers". We use modeling and practicing within a Writing Workshop, utilizing “mentor texts”, writing strategy minilessons, and student choice of writing topics. Grammar lessons are embedded within writing tasks and addressed as needs are identified from students' writing.

Writing Workshop Goals:

• To develop a sense of self as a writer.

• To develop ways of reading the world like writers, collecting ideas with variety, volume, and thoughtfulness.

• To develop a sense of thoughtful, deliberate purpose about our work as writers and a willingness to linger with those purposes.

• To develop ways of reading texts like writers; looking at craft, genre, and form in writing.

• To have a sense of audience and an understanding of how to prepare conventional writing to go into the world.

In Order to Accomplish Your Goals:

* You will have a regularly scheduled chunk of time to write and develop stamina for the process of writing.

* You will have a predictable time and the space to talk about your writing.

* You will have an expectation to regularly finish pieces of writing.

* You will be expected to write with the vision that your finished pieces of writing can answer the question, “What have I read that is like the writing I am trying to do?”