1st Edition

Awakening Brilliance in the Writer's Workshop Using Notebooks, Mentor Texts, and the Writing Process

By Lisa Morris Copyright 2012
    208 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    208 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    Master teacher Lisa Morris invites you to share her secrets of success with writer's workshops. After years of experimenting with the workshop model, she has developed the most effective ways to apply it in the classroom, yielding higher test scores and increased student engagement. Through practical, step-by-step instruction, Morris demonstrates how to use writer's notebooks, mentor texts, the writing process, and the 6 traits. Specific topics include:

    • setting up the classroom for workshops
    • creating a writing curriculum
    • creating guidelines, expectations, and lessons for using notebooks
    • helping students select ideas, brainstorm, and plan
    • assigning writing partners and organizing sharing
    • getting students to self-reflect
    • creating process and product portfolios
    • finding resources for publishing
    • holding effective writing conferences

    The book also offers an array of invaluable tools, such as

    • student writing samples
    • mini-lessons for each stage of the writing process
    • lesson plans
    • pacing guides for dividing your time during the workshop
    • sample charts to help you stay organized
    • suggested classroom guidelines and handouts
    • a list of mentor texts, organized by what you can use them to teach (e.g., adjectives, alliteration, onomatopoeia, beginnings, endings, strong verbs, sensory details)
    • quotations on each stage of the writing process to motivate students

    Dedication and About the Author
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    Introduction
    Chapter 1 The Fundamentals of the Writing Workshop
    Chapter 2 Using Mentor Texts to Create Curriculum
    Chapter 3 Practicing in the Writer's Notebook
    Chapter 4 Collecting and Selecting Ideas in the Writer's Notebook
    Chapter 5 Marinating
    Chapter 6 Drafting and Sharing
    Chapter 7 Ideas for Revision
    Chapter 8 Polishing, Publishing, and Portfolios
    Chapter 9 Conferencing with Confidence
    References
    Quotes from Authors
    Lists of Mentor Texts

    Biography

    Morris, Lisa