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Writing Workshop

Online Activities

As fourth graders, students will be working to continue to improve their writing and express their ideas.  This will take place through instruction during Writing Workshop.  Writing Workshop has three parts:

1. Mini-lesson - The first 10 - 15 minutes of Writing Workshop is the time when I will teach students strategies for gathering ideas, writing fluency, editing, and revising.

2. Independent practice - Students will practice the strategies taught in that day's mini-lesson as well as previous lessons.  I also use this time to conference with individual or small groups of students about their writing projects and facilitate further learning.

3. Share - The final 5 - 10 minutes of Writing Workshop is used to allow invited student's who have successfully used that day's strategy to share their work.  Students are also invited to reflect how they felt that strategy helped or hurt their writing.

Writer's Notebook

Students will use the Writer's Notebook daily during Writing Workshop.  The Writer's Notebook is the place where we allow ideas to grow for writing pieces to be created later on in Writing Workshop.  In their notebook, students brainstorm topics, play with writing craft, tweak a revision strategy, or test out a new genre of writing.  Students' Writer's Notebooks will be collected and assessed about every two weeks using this rubric.