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Audience Teachers of Kindergarten - Year Five (5-11 year olds)
Strand Traditional Literacy (Reading & Writing)
Materials Paper and pens for writing
Co-Presenters Kerryl Howarth and Sue Pike
Biography
Kerryl Howarth is currently a Year Two classroom teacher and the Year Co-ordinator of the Year Two team at the Australian International School, Singapore. She is passionate about the teaching of writing and uses Writers' Workshop in her classroom to engender a love of writing in her students.
Sue Pike is currently Head of Junior School at the Australian International School, Singapore. She is deeply interested in promoting effective instructional practices in classrooms.
Please see the Registration Program PDF output below
for basic information about this workshop.
This session is designed to look at all facets of Writers Workshop in a classroom as a way of empowering children to write ‘as real writers do’. Areas that will be covered will include:
What is the Writers Workshop Model?
What is the teacher’s role in Writers Workshop?
What does an effective mini-lesson look like?
Where does Writers Workshop fit in an overall class writing program?
How can the teaching of text type and the 6 traits model be incorporated into Writers Workshop?
How can I set up my classroom for Writers Workshop?
How do I plan for Writers Workshop?
How can I use Writers Workshop for assessment purposes?
Teaching Powerful, Authentic Writing Through Writers’ Workshop
Description
‘As human beings, we write to communicate, plan, petition, remember, announce, list, imagine…but above all we write to hold our life in our hands and to make something of them. There is no plot line in the bewildering complexity of our lives but that which we make for ourselves. Writing allows us to turn the chaos into something beautiful, to frame selected moments, to uncover and celebrate the organizing patterns of our existence.’ - Lucy Calkins, The Art of Teaching Writing, 1994, p.8
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