Curated OER
Lewin Project
Young scholars discuss the criteria for the Lewin Project. They practice writing using their emotions and feelings. They write to find a voice in their pieces. They share their ideas with the class.
Curated OER
Aboriginal Physical Education
Learners engage in p.e. activities that have roots in native Indian, Metis, and Inuit cultures. They practice the skill involved and listen to the significance behind the skill. They read relevant books and define new terminology.
Curated OER
Energy Panel Hearings: "Your Town", Saskatchewan
Tenth graders access information to participate in a debate about whether a power plant should be placed in their town. They research an assigned point of view.
Curated OER
Dancing Feathers
Fifth graders read and analyze the novel, 'Dancing Feathers.' They identify the main story elements, develop personal and fictional narratives, retell the story from a different point of view, create a mask, and design a postcard.
Curated OER
"The Hell of Mirrors" by Edogawa Rampo
Learners read and analyze the short story, "The Hell of Mirrors," by Edogawa Rampo. They write diary entries, develop a video, create an illustration, conduct research, and write a short story.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Folktale Writer's Workshop
What exactly is the definition of a folktale? This resource offers insight into this topic. Learners will participate in a Folktale writer's workshop where they will learn about folktales and will eventually write their own and publish it.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Beginning a Kindergarten Writers Workshop
A series of quick lessons teachers can use when setting up a Writers Workshop in their classrooms. Lessons include teaching students appropriate Writers Workshop behaviors and activities, building independence, discussion topics, and...
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Young Writers Workshop
A wonderful collection of downloadable PDF story starters ("workshop pages") for young children. Each worksheet includes a colorful image, fun prompt and writing lines. Students can also submit their stories for publication on the site.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Writers' Workshop
Students draw on their understanding of different types of narratives to inspire and enrich their own storytelling. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography Writer's Workshop
This tutorial has students follow a step-by-step guide to write their very own biography using that of Frederick Douglass as a model.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing With Virginia Hamilton
This workshop helps students increase their skills in descriptive writing by following tips and suggestions from writer Virginia Hamilton. After reading about Hamilton, students write their descriptive pieces and publish them online. A...
Other
Young Author's Workshop: Resource Pages
This site provides middle school students with links to online resources that will take them step by step through the writing process. The steps in this process are those used in Writer's Workshop.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Tillbury Town Tales: A Butcher's Story
A Writer's Workshop lesson in which students read E. A. Robinson's poem "Reuben Bright" and record five different interpretations in their notebooks. Any of these interpretations can be used later as an interesting piece of writing to...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry
In Workshop 3, we see two master teachers - Vivian Johnson, who teaches eighth grade in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Jack Wilde, a fifth-grade teacher from Hanover, New Hampshire - help their students develop as readers and writers of...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshop 6: Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student
"Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student" [58:21] demonstrates how five teachers Jenny Beasley, Vivian Johnson, Mary Cathryn Ricker, Laurie Swistak, and Jack Wildea use student-teacher conferences to help their students improve as...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Writers' Notebook
Virtually participate in a workshop of four high school teachers led by a renowned author. There are eight topics including "Hiding and Revealing with Language," "Using Sensory Description," and "Writing a Picture of Me".
Scholastic
Scholastic: Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables With Jon Scieszka
In this resource students will have an opportunity to learn about fractured fairy tales and fables with the help of Jon Scieszka. This site also features a writer's workshop where students can write their own fractured tale and publish...
Other
Storyarts: The on Line Writing Workshop
Storyarts is a free online writing workshop that includes not only assignments, but also publication of writings to other e-mail subscribers through its Storyarts Listserv. Samples of published works are included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Kinde R Revision
Six mini-lessons designed to teach beginning writers age-appropriate revisions they can make in their Writers Workshop pieces. Lessons include printable graphic organizers, revision sheets, student work samples, and more.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: All About Posters
As young writers become more skilled through the Writers Workshop lessons, they can begin working to become more skilled with non-fiction writing. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, and samples of student work are all provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare & Contrast as an Idea Springboard
In this Writers Workshop lesson, students read Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel to learn about writing that compares and contrasts to things. This format can be used to write about many different topics in curricular areas and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Sausage Story: A Riddle Inspired Tale
A Writer's Workshop instructional activity in which students uncover the riddle of a Sausage Story, learn to identify the sausage sentence within the story, and finally write their own Sausage Stories along with hints for their readers...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Keeping the Writing Going
A list of seven writing ideas designed to inspire students to continue writing in Writers Workshop even after they have finished working on a specific piece.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Write About Something Real at School
In this Writers Workshop lesson, students look around themselves and think about their daily lives at school to find relevant writing topics.
Other popular searches
- First Grade Writers Workshop
- Minilesson Writers Workshop
- Mini Lesson Writers Workshop
- Writers Workshop Publish
- Writers Workshop Lessons
- Readers and Writers Workshop
- Setting Up Writers Workshop
- Writers Workshop Mini
- Writers Workshop Focus
- Writers Workshop the Cocoon
- Launching Writer's Workshop
- Writer's Workshop Steps