Establishing a Writer’s Workshop

Day 1

What is a Writer’s Workshop?

• What does it mean to establish?

• What is a workshop?

• Why would we need to establish a writer’s workshop?

Rules and Expectations

• During writing time, you are silent to think about your writing!

• You write continuously to capture all of your thoughts!

Look around the classroom, do you see any writing?

• We write every day! There is always writing around us.

• We use writing for many purposes and to reach a variety of audiences.

Brainstorm a chart of the uses of writing and the possible audiences.

Uses of Writing Audiences

Writer’s Notebook

• Introduce an I Love/I Hate list

• Label and Date all entries

Your Turn…

• Take a few minutes to write your own Love/Hate list

• Label your page and date it

• We will share in about 5 minutes.

•Share with your group your top 2 Loves and your top 2 Hates.

Establishing a Writer’s Workshop

Day 2

• The purpose of a writer’s notebook is to collect our ideas and thoughts.

• Why should we add new ideas and thoughts to our notebook?

• Today we are going to create a list of our favorite things. (model)

• Remember: Label and Date entry

Your turn…

• Create a list of your favorite things. Write a short sentence telling why it is your favorite.

• We will share with our group in a few minutes.

•Share with your group your top 3 favorite moments.

Establishing a Writer’s Notebook

Day 3

• The purpose of a writer’s notebook is to collect our ideas and thoughts.

• Why should we add new ideas and thoughts to our notebook?

• Today we are going to create a list of our best and worst memories. (model)

• Remember: Label and Date entry

Your turn…

• Create a list of your best and worst memories. Write a short sentence telling why they are good or bad.

• We will share with our group in a few minutes.

•Share with your group your top 2 best and your top 2 worst memories.

Establishing a Writer’s Notebook

Day 4

• The purpose of a writer’s notebook is to collect our ideas and thoughts.

• Today we will be talking about sketching your ideas.

• Model sketching your favorite place. Add a few sentences to describe it.

Your turn…

• Sketch your favorite place and add a few sentences to describe it. You do not have to be an artist!

• We will share with our group in a few minutes.

•Share with your group your sketch.

Establishing a Writer’s Notebook

Day 5

• The purpose of a writer’s notebook is to collect our ideas and thoughts.

• Today we will be talking about sketching our memories.

Powerful Language

• Used to create a clear picture in the reader’s mind by the author

• Ex. He could hear the mournful lost voices of the foghorns.

• What powerful language do we see?

Your turn…

• Make a list of examples of powerful language that you can find in your books.

• We will share with our group in a few minutes.

•Share with your group some powerful language.