Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works

By Lynne R. Dorfman and Stacey Shubitz

Book Overview

Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and short focused video clips, teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where:

- Both students and teachers are working authors

- Students spend most of their time writing--not just learning about it- Student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones

- Students are part of the formative assessment process

- Students will look forward to writing time--not dread it.

From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and mini-lessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625311664
• ISBN13: 9781625311665
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 8