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Writers Learn the Rituals • Independent Writing Rubric • Teach the rituals and
• Guidelines for Conferences structures of the Writing
and Structures of the • Guidelines for Mini Lessons Workshop
Writing Workshop • Students learn to work
independently while teacher
confers
• Classroom looks like, feels like
and sounds like a place where
writing matters
• Students see themselves as
members of a writing
community
• Students’ roles during mini
lessons
• Students’ roles independent
writing time
• Students’ roles during
conferences.
Adapted by J. K. and O. K., Whittier School, Long Beach Unified School District, 8/2002
From Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Writing Curricular Calendar 2002-3
Writing Workshop Curricular Calendar
Essential Question – “What can we make of this?”
Everyone Has a Shared • New Writer’s Notebooks • Students begin the year with
• Examples of Writer’s Writer’s Notebooks
Understanding of What It Notebooks • Writers collect entries out of
Means to Live Like a • Writer’s Notebook Rubric the details of their lives
Writer • A Writer’s Notebook, • Students generate writing
Unlocking the Writer Within • Writing can grow from:
You, by Ralph Fletcher observations or rereading
• Books where the main previous pieces or memories
character has a journal • Writers have real purposes for
writing
• Writers select a seed idea from
entries
• Develop that seed idea by
writing more entries about it
• “What could I make of this?”
• How to be sure seed ideas are
“seeds”
• Write with focus and detail
• Write a range of different
genres or personal narratives
Adapted by J. K. and O. K., Whittier School, Long Beach Unified School District, 8/2002
From Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Writing Curricular Calendar 2002-3