As I visited 3rd grade writing workshop classrooms last week, it was exciting to see lots of enthusiastic writing that included great word choice, transitions, elaboration, and details in informational writing . The clear routines and strong independence and stamina in the classrooms are certainly yielding great progress. These are some strategies that teachers are using to target different student writing needs. If you are finding some of the same needs to target, then use some of these suggestions:
The informational writing unit is layered because we are also concerned with research skills and close reading strategies. Therefore, individualized and choice writing can be challenging as we confer. Despite that challenge, it was great to see many of the classes differentiating in a true Writing Workshop environment, implementing individualized writing instruction, teaching the writer and not the writing.
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Welcome to my writing blog where I will share quick, easy, and useful resources for writing workshop and writing across the curriculum. Let's start with some lesson videos from Teachers College....these links include videos covering all lesson components with commentary. |
AuthorJamie Saponaro, Instructional Strategies Consultant Archives
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