HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Writing an Autobiography Using Pictures
This is a 4-day lesson on how to write an autobiography. Students also learn to take digital pictures of themselves and use them in their writing.
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.
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.
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: Write in the Middle: Wkshop 8: Teaching the Power of Revision
Workshop 8 takes viewers into the classrooms of three language arts teachers-Velvet McReynolds, Mary Cathryn Ricker, and Jack Wilde-as their students tackle the ongoing task of revision. Throughout the workshop, we hear reflections on...
Other
Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
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...
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: 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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing
Workshop 5 centers on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. As students explore different avenues for translating...
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: Write in the Middle: #7: Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer
Peer response helps students learn how to give constructive feedback to others, an important life skill. "Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer" visits the classrooms of three teachers-fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde, seventh-grade teacher...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Autobiographies
This site is a writing workshop from Scholastic Inc. on writing autobiographies.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous & Interesting Story Titles
In this lesson plan, The Paper Bag Princess, a book written by Robert Munsch, is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will reflect on how nouns can sometimes be used as interesting adjectives. Students will collect these ideas in their...
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Robert J. Sawyer: Writing Workshops
This site features a list of columns written by Robert Sawyer. They include: Great Beginnings, Point of View, Constructing Characters, Show, Don't Tell, Description, Research, and more. W.9-10.3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e Narratives, W.11-12.3, 3a,...
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: 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...
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.