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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
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
Editorial Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit IV.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on editorial skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which focus on a specific writing improvement skill, such as writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Editing, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
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
Sentence Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit II.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on sentence skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students write simple, compound, and complex sentences. The…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Figurative Language, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Notetaking and Outlining Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit VI.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on notetaking and outlining skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which give students practical experience in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Notetaking
Released into Language: Options for Teaching Creative Writing.
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Bishop, Wendy – 1990
After a brief review of the history of college writing instruction, this book examines the undergraduate creative writing workshop. The book attempts to reweave the currently separate strands of college-level creative writing instruction and composition instruction in the belief that developments in these perhaps artificially separated areas can…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, English Curriculum, Higher Education
Word Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit I.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on word skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of vocabulary, different parts of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Process Approach (Writing)
Letter and Report Writing Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit V.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on letter and report writing skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which give students practical experience in writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Letters (Correspondence)
Paragraph Writing Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit III.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on paragraph writing, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of descriptive, narrative,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
Primary Writer's Workshop: Developing Process Writing Skills.
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Kieczykowski, Carol – 1996
Intended for the K-2 classroom, this book provides teachers with ideas and materials for teaching the writing process. The book contains reproducible thinking charts and graphic organizers including mind mapping, prewriting story structure, and topic, content, and editing charts. Advice for classroom management and the organization and structure…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development
Utilizing Visual Literacy Techniques in a Modified Writing Workshop.
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Greenberg, Eileen – 1997
A program was developed and implemented for use with college freshmen at a community college in southeast Florida whose entrance examination scores fell below the acceptable range for admission into a regular English classroom. These students lacked an adequate background in basic English language skills, had an insufficient understanding of the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Community Colleges, English Instruction