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Lucy Calkins' Writers Workshop
Lucy Calkins' Writers Workshop
Lucy Calkins has created a great resource for writing education. Her curriculum uses minilessons that connect to students' prior learning, make a teaching point, provide examples given by the teacher, and allow students to engage by building on and interacting with the teacher to illustrate the concepts of the minilesson. Students are then given time to brainstorm, plan, draft, and/or revise while the teacher makes individual or small-group conferences with students. In addition to the minilessons and the conferences, the program uses some established, short picture books as guides to help students see and understand what authors have done to create their character or to use small moments effectively.
The Lucy Calkins program goes over the three major writing standards for the fourth grade: narrative, opinion, and informational. We will work through all of these three units throughout the course of the school year, beginning with narrative writing.
Throughout the process, students will be using a Writer's Notebook, which will often double for other purposes in my class. Students will not be creating their drafts-to-be-turned-in within the pages of the notebook (or they shouldn't); instead, drafts that are to be turned in should be written on a single side of a loose-leaf notebook page, and their writing should be double spaced (skipping lines as they write). This will help with the drafting and revision process.
As we start and begin working on a unit of study, I will add more tabs about the writing process. For now, please feel free to look at what has been started of the Narrative tab!
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