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Douglas Kaufman – Literacy, 2025
Writing workshop, as conceived by Donald Graves and other US researchers in the 1980s, positively transformed the writing instruction of many teachers. However, others experienced considerable challenges as they tried to create workshop classrooms. This article examines the three historical conditions that defined workshop: (1) choice, (2) time…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Writing Instruction, Models, Program Implementation
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Schrodt, Katie; Barksdale, Bonnie; Fields, R. Stacy – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2022
This article seeks to empower teachers to create a literacy environment in which children begin to identify as writers: confident, willing to take risks, engaged, excited, persistent, resilient, resourceful, and self-starting. The teaching methods provided in the article are centered around the writer's workshop model, applied in a Kindergarten…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Writing (Composition), Kindergarten, Young Children
Stewart, Cyndi – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Writing retreats have proven to be a productive experience for faculty, if they are well-organized, focused on bulk writing and assist in reaching an individual's goals and connection to his or her writing. If writing retreats have shown productive for faculty, arguably there may be even greater opportunity for success considering students are…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Graduate Students, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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McCarthey, Sarah J.; Kang, Grace – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The study focused on two kindergarten teachers who were observed and interviewed throughout one school year. The contrasting cases demonstrate how two teachers drew upon their experiences with teaching writing and professional development (PD) with differing outcomes for their instruction and underlying beliefs about writing. Dana, an experienced…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Case Studies
Kimbrell, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The study investigated a coach's use of a theoretical framework called the Model of Mastery to assist three teachers in becoming self-regulated in the teaching of writing workshop by moving them through three settings: acquisition, consolidation, and consultation. The goal of the coach was to assist teachers in developing expertise in procedural,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Mentors, Writing Workshops, Coaching (Performance)
Donnelly, Dianne – Multilingual Matters, 2011
This book advances creative writing studies as a developing field of inquiry, scholarship, and research. It discusses the practice of creative writing studies, the establishment of a body of professional knowledge, and the goals and future direction of the discipline within the academy. This book also traces the development of creative writing…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Discipline, Creative Writing, Research Methodology
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Bush, Jonathan; Zuidema, Leah A. – English Journal, 2011
As teachers of writing, the authors know that choices matter: the more choices they can give their students, the better their writing will be--and the better writers they'll become. Many teachers design their courses as writing workshops, so that students make choices about the genres they compose in. They structure writing assignments so that…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Writing Instruction, Writing for Publication, Writing Assignments
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Kissel, Brian; Hansen, Jane; Tower, Holly; Lawrence, Jody – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
This article examines six years of ethnographic research in Robyn Davis's pre-kindergarten classroom in the USA. Using a theoretical framework to embed writing within a social semiotic that is multimodal and has social intent (Street, 2003), the authors show how children used interactions during writing to create various written products. Three…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Kindergarten, Ethnography, Preschool Education
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Pandey, Anjali – TESOL Journal, 2012
This article calls for a rethinking of pure process-based approaches in the teaching of second language writers in the middle school classroom. The author provides evidence from a detailed case study of the writing of a Korean middle school student in a U.S. school setting to make a case for rethinking the efficacy of classic process-based…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Miller, Carla – Journal of Adult Education, 2012
The roles of dialogue, collaborative writing, and authentic communication have been explored as effective strategies in second language writing classrooms. In this article, the stages of an innovative, multi-skill writing method, which embeds students' personal voices into the writing process, are explored. A 10-step ESL Audio Script Writing Model…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Collaborative Writing, Models, Interpersonal Communication
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Flint, Amy S.; Kurumada, Katie Simon; Fisher, Teresa; Zisook, Karla – Professional Development in Education, 2011
The present article discusses the impact of a localized and generative model of professional development on the teaching lives of two American elementary school teachers and a university research team. Within the framework of the ethic of care, the study focused on the construction of relationships between university team members and teachers that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Higher Education
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Evers, Amy J.; Lang, Lisa F.; Smith, Sharon V. – Reading Teacher, 2009
The authors describe how alphabet books teach so much more than just the ABCs. They provide excellent resources, allowing teachers to link and integrate the reciprocal processes of reading and writing. Encapsulated within the writing workshop framework, the authors use multigenre and multicultural alphabet books as anchor texts for a literacy…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Parent Participation, Writing Workshops
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Kadavy, Casey; Chuppa-Cornell, Kim – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
At the beginning of each school year, the Languages and Humanities Division at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) meets to discuss first-year composition matters. Faculty leave the workshop renewed by the collaboration and buoyed by the promise and potential of a new semester. Yet, when classes actually begin, faculty may find that they are…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Virtual Classrooms, Librarians, Humanities
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Gannon, Susanne – English in Australia, 2008
This paper reports on one strand of a research project conducted with prominent writers who are also English teachers from around Australia. It asks what were the conditions which led these writers to come to writing and what conditions have they created in their own work with high school students that establish and promote an enabling pedagogy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Writing Instruction, Ethics
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Helsel, Lisa; Greenberg, Daphne – Reading Teacher, 2007
While writer's workshop provides a nurturing environment for many students, others struggle with the independence it gives. This may be due to the difficulty of coordinating the cognitive and self-regulatory demands of the writing process. Self-regulation refers to thoughts, feelings, and actions that individuals use to attain personal goals.…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Writing Ability, Writing Processes, Writing Strategies
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