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Teaching Writing: A Workshop Approach. Grades 2-6.
Fiderer, Adele – 1993
This book has an easy-to-follow-format. It supports teachers through six workshops by sharing specific strategies, procedures, and materials that worked best for students and teachers in classroom writing workshops. The book discusses the routines that helped organize and support a workshop; and presents strategies for anecdotal record-keeping,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Evaluation
Writing Often, Writing Well.
Avery, Carol – Instructor, 1992
Describes how an elementary teacher developed a daily writer's workshop. Suggestions for finding time to write include reducing use of workbooks and skillsheets, looking for redundancy in curriculum programs, concentrating on writing for a shortened period of the school year, and creating time-saving instructional strategies. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Time Management
Warm-Ups. Skill Building the Whole Language Way. Writing Workshop.
Lincoln, Wanda – Learning, 1993
Presents writing warm-up activities to help elementary students develop and polish their language skills. The warm-up activities focus on detail, descriptive dialog, memory writing, titles, punctuation, and vocabulary enhancement. The activities provide choices, present important ideas, and foster collaboration, responsibility, and trial and error…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Teaching Methods
Balanced Literacy Instruction: A Teacher's Resource Book.
Au, Kathryn H.; Carroll, Jacquelin H.; Scheu, Judith A. – 1997
Bringing together information elementary school teachers need to make balanced literacy instruction a reality, this book presents more than 90 short articles designed to be read in a brief period of time and suitable for use in after-school workshops. It presents ideas and instructional approaches teachers have found most valuable and effective in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Dynamite Writing Ideas: Empowering Students To Become Authors! For 2nd-6th Grade Teachers.
Forney, Melissa – 1996
Designed to help teachers empower students to become thinkers, writers, and especially authors, this book helps teachers develop a writer's mindset in grades 2-6 students. It supports and guides teachers from the week before school through the spring Young Author's Conference that recognizes writing achievement. Chapters in the book are: (1) Kids…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Student Empowerment
Professional Growth: Excursions into Writing.
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
Balanced Literacy Instruction: A Teacher's Resource Book. Second Edition.
Au, Kathryn H.; Carroll, Jacquelin H.; Scheu, Judith A. – 2001
Bringing together information elementary school teachers need to make balanced literacy instruction a reality, this book presents more than 90 short articles designed to be read in a brief period of time and suitable for use in after-school workshops. It presents ideas and instructional approaches teachers have found most valuable and effective in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement
Writing Pictures, Painting Words: Writing in an Artists' Workshop.
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Ernst, Karen – Language Arts, 1994
Provides words and pictures to help understand how the concept of the artists' workshop can enhance writers' workshops in the elementary or middle school classroom. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Class Activities, Elementary Education
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts).
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
Teaching Writing Skills with Children's Literature.
Dierking, Connie Campbell; Anderson-McElveen, Susan – 1998
Intended for teachers, this workbook uses 20 well-known children's books as models to teach expository and narrative writing skills. The workbook teaches students about brainstorming, focus, organization, elaboration, and writing conventions with readily-available quality children's literature, such as "When I Was Young in the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Write-a-Thon: How To Conduct a Writing Marathon in Your Third-to-Fifth-Grade Class.
Wilde, Susie – 1997
This book takes the elementary school teacher through all the paces needed to conduct a 2-day writing marathon in the classroom. According to the book, working as a team and having the opportunity to write without interruption are the main goals of a "write-a-thon," but play is a key element to its success. The book explains step-by-step…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education