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Writing Workshop Model in the Classroom
Language and Literacy | K-12
Too many writing exercises focus exclusively on improving the piece—and not the writer. However, writing workshops are an excellent opportunity to help students take ownership of their writing and their learning by giving them the time and direction they need to reflect and grow in their craft.
In this course, you will reflect on and evaluate your own writing instruction and determine areas where you might be able to improve. You’ll develop strategies for helping students succeed during every phase of writing, including prewriting, actual writing time, and sharing and feedback. In addition, you’ll learn how to avoid common pitfalls that take away from students’ agency in their writing, such as correcting students’ errors too quickly, telling them what their piece needs (rather than helping them discover it), and taking up too much time with direct instruction.
Using techniques from this course, you will be able to conduct a successful writing workshop that helps your students grow as writers and in their love for the craft.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Ways to enhance student writing with a breakdown of the writing workshop components and how they fit inside the model
- Strategies to enhance the writing and communication skills of all students
- Strategies for using the writing workshop model to teach and assess writing
- Tools for creating an outline of a unit plan using the workshop model
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Evaluate the writing workshop model as a tool for teaching writing.
- Examine the components of writing workshop to effectively teach writing.
- Analyze strategies to enhance the writing and communication skills of writers.
- Evaluate existing unit plans and revise to include the workshop model for all writers.
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