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Cook, Jimmie – Teaching Pre K-8, 1994
Describes how a sixth-grade teacher turned sluggish Friday afternoons into student writing workshops. Students wrote essays on topics of their own choosing, exchanged papers with classmates to correct spelling and grammar, and provided each other with suggestions to improve the essays. Over the course of the school year, student writing improved…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Essays
Ray, Katie Wood – 2001
Designed to be a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers, this book confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on, with chapters on all aspects of the writing workshop, including: day-to-day instruction, classroom management, the development of writing identities, and the tone of workshop…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Johnson, Bea – 1999
This book was developed for two reasons: to show teachers, administrators, and parents how to have a successful year-long writing program; and to demonstrate that a valuable literacy tool is not expensive when it utilizes reading-readiness materials already in use. Intended primarily for K-1 teachers, the book contends that students can be…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Emergent Literacy
Retherford, Robert – 1998
Use of the writing workshop format to introduce creative writing in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes is discussed. The reasons for including creative writing and using the writing workshop format are outlined, and the author's experience using this format in three very different teaching situations (basic ESL writing, academic ESL, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, English for Academic Purposes
Download full textKieczykowski, Carol – 1996
Intended for the K-2 classroom, this book provides teachers with ideas and materials for teaching the writing process. The book contains reproducible thinking charts and graphic organizers including mind mapping, prewriting story structure, and topic, content, and editing charts. Advice for classroom management and the organization and structure…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development
Hong, Min; Stafford, Patsy – 1997
This book, designed by teachers for teachers, contains activities and assessment ideas for developing a classroom spelling program individualized to meet the needs of each child. The book discusses the traditional methods of teaching spelling versus today's research-based methods. Noting that in the classrooms discussed, spelling has been…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
