Writers Workshop

Author : Ralph J. Fletcher
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Workshop written by Ralph J. Fletcher and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work.

Author : Warren Combs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317925122
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writer's Workshop for the Common Core written by Warren Combs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing instruction expert Warren Combs presents a step-by-step plan for teaching writing workshops that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The book is filled with practical mini-lessons, strategies, and tools for every stage of the writing process, from prewriting through publication. Scripting is provided, to show teachers how to model each strategy for students. In addition, Dr. Combs shows how teachers can use the following elements: The concepts Voice, Pictures, and Flow, to help students understand the essential elements of writing; The words Invite, Model, Write, Look, and Learn, to model effective writing for students and have them learn from your example; Revision strategies such as Jot and Blend, Combining Sentences, Writing Leads, and Writing Closes; Peer revision using Peer-Assisted Learning Systems (PALS); Student self-assessment rubrics. The book also includes scoring guides and pacing guides, to help teachers implement writing workshops more easily. As Dr. Combs demonstrates, you can give workshops more structure while still making writing come alive for your students.

Author : Carol Bly
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307778207
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Writers' Workshop written by Carol Bly and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new approach to teaching and writing creative nonfiction from veteran teacher and critically acclaimed author Carol Bly. Teachers and writers everywhere are facing the limits imposed by the prevailing models of teaching: community or MFA “workshops” or, at the high-school level, “peer review.” In Beyond the Writers' Workshop Carol Bly presents an alternative. She believes that workshopping’s tendency to engage in wry scorn and pay exaggerated attention to technical details, causes apprentice writers, consciously or unconsciously, to modify their most passionate work. Inspired by a philosophy of individuality and moral rigor, Bly combines ideas and techniques from social work, psychotherapy, and neuroscience with the traditional teaching of fresh metaphor, salient dialogue, lively pace, and analysis of other literary work in her pioneering new approach. She also includes exercises and examples in an extensive practical appendix.

Author : Richard Gentry, Ph.D.
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 1480776378
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Lesson Level 3--Guidelines for Writer's Workshop written by Richard Gentry, Ph.D. and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporate writing instruction in your classroom as an essential element of literacy development while implementing best practices. Simplify the planning of writing instruction and become familiar with the Common Core State Standards of Writing.

Author : Danell Jones
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553384929
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop written by Danell Jones and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will delight fans, students, and teachers alike—and at last give Woolf a classroom of her own. Imagine what it might be like if Virginia Woolf were teaching a writers’ workshop. What would she say? What elements of her own experience would writers today find valuable? Now one need only to look within these pages to find out. For here, perched at the podium of a classroom, Woolf shares her wisdom on a range of matters, including: The value of experimentation How to use a journal for inspiration The importance of reading, walking, and practicing Methods for learning from great writers Also included are “writing sparks”—exercises for writers of all levels—inspired by Woolf’s best-known works, plus the original sources of all of Woolf’s quotes for deeper exploration. Let Woolf’s utterly unique vision guide you to your own distinct voice at the same time that you deepen your appreciation and knowledge of her as a revolutionary writer and thinker. This practical reference motivates and inspires readers to embrace their personal vision through the spirit of one of the foremost literary talents of the twentieth century.

Author : Amy Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317566270
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infusing Grammar Into the Writer's Workshop written by Amy Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your students improve their language skills and become stronger readers and writers. In this timely book, literacy experts Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub offer best practices for fortifying the writer’s workshop model with meaningful, relevant instruction in grammar. The book answers questions such as... What does a writer’s workshop look like and how does it fit into balanced literacy models? How does grammar fit into a writer’s workshop? How can you use natural language acquisition to transition children from non-Standard to Standard English patterns? How can you teach students to identify a complete sentence? What are effective ways to teach parts of speech? How can you build on nouns and verbs to teach adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and dependent clauses? In each chapter, you’ll find out exactly what teaching the targeted concept looks like in a workshop classroom. Examples are provided for different grade levels and can be adapted as necessary to meet your needs. This book is a No-Worksheet Zone. You’ll learnhow to present grammar using authentic text and talk, leading to more durable learning.

Author : Alex Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582344620
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gotham Writers' Workshop Fiction Gallery written by Alex Steele and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short fiction selected by members of New York's acclaimed creative writing school presents works that range from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," to "A Romantic Weekend by Mary Gaitskill, to Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain," reflecting a rich variety of themes, perspectives, and plot and character development. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Linda J. Dorn
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1571103422
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scaffolding Young Writers written by Linda J. Dorn and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of teaching writing is to create independent and self-motivated writers. When students write more often, they become better at writing. They acquire habits, skills, and strategies that enable them to learn more about the craft of writing. Yet they require the guidance and support of a more knowledgeable person who understands the writing process, the changes over time in writing development, and specific techniques and procedures for teaching writing. In Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers' Workshop Approach, Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos present a clear road map for implementing writers' workshop in the primary grades. Adopting an apprenticeship approach, the authors show how explicit teaching, good models, clear demonstrations, established routines, assisted teaching followed by independent practice, and self-regulated learning are all fundamental in establishing a successful writers' workshop. There is a detailed chapter on organizing for writers' workshop, including materials, components, routines, and procedures. Other chapters provide explicit guidelines for designing productive mini-lessons and student conferences. Scaffolding Young Writers also features: an overview of how children become writers;analyses of students' samples according to informal and formal writing assessments;writing checklists, benchmark behaviors, and rubrics based on national standards;examples of teaching interactions during mini-lessons and writing conferences;illustrations of completed forms and checklists with detailed descriptions, and blank reproducible forms in the appendix for classroom use. Instruction is linked with assessment throughout the book, so that all teaching interactions are grounded in what children already know and what they need to know as they develop into independent writers.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917911
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this book. Here you'll find: The fundamental elements of fiction craft-character, plot, point of view, etc.-explained clearly and completely - Key concepts illustrated with passages from great works of fiction - The complete text of "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver-a masterpiece of contemporary short fiction that is analyzed throughout the book - Exercises that let you immediately apply what you learn to your own writing. Written by Gotham Writers' Workshop expert instructors and edited by Dean of Faculty Alexander Steele, Writing Fiction offers the same methods and exercises that have earned the school international acclaim. Once you've read-and written-your way through this book, you'll have a command of craft that will enable you to turn your ideas into effective short stories and novels. You will be a writer. Gotham Writers' Workshop is America's leading private creative writing school, offering classes in New York City and on the web at WritingClasses.com. The school's interactive online classes, selected "Best of the Web" by Forbes, have attracted thousands of aspiring writers from across the United States and more than sixty countries.

Author : Robin M. Bright
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
ISBN 13 : 9781895411966
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Write from the Start written by Robin M. Bright and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of From Your Child's Teacher, comes this excellent teacher's resource for helping primary students begin to write their stories.This resource includes:strategies for organizing and developing writers workshopsamples that illustrate various levels of writingstrategies for conferencing with young studentsinformation on the role of editingassessment ideasmany practical reproduciblesdetailed writing-activity lessons