Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Small Moment With an Important Person
A writer's workshop idea where students brainstorm a list of people who are important to them as well as one or two times they remember being with each person. Students then use these ideas to write about a small moment with someone who...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Great Lists Inspire Great Writing
A writer's workshop idea where students work together to brainstorm a list a possible writing topics to use throughout the year. Idea lists for primary and intermediate students are provided.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Workshop: Analyzing a Character [Pdf]
Organize your thoughts about two different characters using this printable worksheet. Five elements of character are covered. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers
Workshop 1 explores the components of a community of writers and what teachers can do to create and foster such a community. After a brief introduction to the goals of all eight workshop sessions, middle school teacher and writing expert...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Students engage in writing workshop, using a timeline to focus in on and write about a specific event.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: For Writer's Notebook: Heart Maps and Writing Topics
A heart map is a visual representation of a student's heart, displaying topics that "live" there; these topics are ones the student would show passion about and interest towards when writing about them. In writer's workshop students...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Let's Read It!
Five mini-lessons to help young writers develop their writing skills within a Writers Workshop model.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Borrowing From Books
Six mini-lessons teach young writers how to borrow ideas or patterns from popular children's books to use in their Writing Workshop pieces. Text ideas and student samples are provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Question and Answer Books
Beginning writers work through a Writing Workshop format to create Question and Answer books. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, possible texts, and samples of student work are all provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: How to Make Poetry
Students learn how to write poetry through ten Writing Workshop mini-lessons. Students complete the graphic organizers provided while learning to notice details, write similes and metaphors, and create patterns in their writing.
Other
Young Author's Workshop: Revising
Revise means to take another look at something. If you are not satisfied with your story, this is the step where you add details, dialog, and action to make the story more interesting.
Other
Poets & Writers Magazine: Classifieds
Found in these classifieds are numerous calls for manuscripts of various kinds (some of a somewhat controversial nature). Contests are also mentioned.
Other
If I Were a Carpenter: The Tools of the Writer
Twenty tips for writers, slanted toward fiction, from the director of the National Writers' Workshop. Tips are divided into four areas: sentences and paragraphs, language, effects, and structure.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Flash Drafts
This lesson is a workshop for writers. This idea was taken from the Ralph Fletcher book: What a Writer Needs. Students create a character, either real or fictional, and place that character in a scene in order to write about their...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Myth Writing Workshop With Jane Yolen
Well-known author Jane Yolen takes you step by step through the process of writing a myth. The site includes a Myth Brainstorming Machine to help get ideas flowing.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Week
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for Reader's Workshop. Students will learn the importance of carefully organizing instructional times.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Fix Homepage
Have you ever needed someone to help you out with your writing? This site offers help to students and teachers. The lessons and resources are organized based on the 6 Writing Traits model. An especially interesting feature of the site is...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation
A Writer's Workshop idea in which learners learn to use and punctuate adverbs and specific dialogue to create puns called Tom Swifties. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an...
Other
Young Author's Workshop: Editing
Now that you written enough drafts to be satisfied with the content and ideas of your story, you are ready to check spelling. You might also like to make sure you have any historical information correct, check other facts, or consult a...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Power of Points of View
Students use alternate points of view to demonstrate their understanding of the Revolutionary War by writing one piece from the point of view of a Patriot, and another piece from the point of view of a Loyalist.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Involving Students in Grading
An explanation of how to involve students in the grading process by working together to create a rubric and evaluate the papers of classmates according to that rubric.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Guilty or Innocent
A writing lesson using the R.A.F.T. model and the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Students take on the role of attorneys and write persuasive speeches for the jury proclaiming the narrator's guilt or innocence.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Mechanical Monsters
In this lesson, students read the description of the mechanical dog from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and then work in groups to create and write descriptions of their own futuristic pet.
Curated OER
Writing Fix: Beginning a Kindergarten Writers Workshop: Drawing a Picture
Color photograph of a child sitting on the floor drawing a picture.
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