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Goldys, Patrice – Learning, 1990
This article describes the concepts and activities of the Write Stuff Workshop, a joint venture that brings parents and children together as allies in writing. Topics include planning the workshop, workshop activities, and at-home follow-up activities for parents and students. Three reproducibles for parents are included. (IAH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship
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Bertch, Julie; Fleming, Delryn R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1991
Offers suggestions for planning writing across the curriculum workshops for faculty, focusing on participants' roles, participant recruitment, workshop logistics (e.g., location, scheduling, choice of facilitator), program content, and follow-up activities. (DMM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions
Crosby, Mary Neil – 1991
This bulletin discusses some non-traditional teaching vehicles such as plays, computers, and "learning by doing" projects used to heighten student interest in law-related education (LRE) by offering students unique experiences in a variety of settings. Four plays that have been developed or sponsored by local bar associations include:…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Enrichment, Drama
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Donnelly, Amy; Files, Janet; Mills, Heidi; Stephens, Diane – 2000
In this inquiry study, teachers will learn about or refine their understanding of the components of Reading and Writing Workshop. They will begin by living as writers themselves and then explore how to create supportive contexts for the learners in their classrooms. Video footage from a number of classrooms will serve as a series of possibilities…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Inquiry
Novelli, Joan; Lasky, Kathryn – Instructor, 1996
Students can learn to appreciate history as readers and writers of historical fiction. This section presents an introduction to historical fiction, a display idea, a mystery history game, discussion of character-building, charts for students to fill in with information on historical characters, suggestions for customizing writing centers and for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature Appreciation
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
Avery, Carol – Instructor, 1992
Describes how an elementary teacher developed a daily writer's workshop. Suggestions for finding time to write include reducing use of workbooks and skillsheets, looking for redundancy in curriculum programs, concentrating on writing for a shortened period of the school year, and creating time-saving instructional strategies. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Time Management
Avery, Carol – Instructor, 1993
Describes how elementary teachers can set up meaningful guidelines to enhance the productivity of writing workshops. Writing workshops accommodate the idiosyncratic nature of individual writing and learning processes. They provide a highly structured environment with clear rules and procedures. The article explains how to establish classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Guidelines, Teacher Student Relationship
Hermsen, Terry, Ed.; Fox, Robert, Ed. – 1998
Based on a series of successful summer writing institutes, this book presents practical ways for teachers to reinvigorate their classrooms and their own attitudes toward creative writing. In four complementary sections focusing on four groups of writers--creative writers in residence, K-12 students and teachers who participated in the summer…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Summer Programs
Bunce-Crim, Marna – Instructor, 1991
A teacher-researcher provides ideas for creating a writer's workshop and encouraging written expression. Suggestions include letting the children create the room arrangement, providing a variety of writing tools, establishing a predictable writing time, becoming partners with students in the writing process, and encouraging students to be active…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Lincoln, Wanda – Learning, 1993
Presents writing warm-up activities to help elementary students develop and polish their language skills. The warm-up activities focus on detail, descriptive dialog, memory writing, titles, punctuation, and vocabulary enhancement. The activities provide choices, present important ideas, and foster collaboration, responsibility, and trial and error…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Teaching Methods
Freeman, Marcia S. – 1999
Designed to create and maintain an effective classroom writing workshop, this book explains how to teach young writers style and genre characteristics, composing skills, conventions, and the many aspects of the writing process itself. The second edition includes more information, models, and examples in the expository genre, as well as elaborating…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Poetry, Portfolio Assessment, Process Approach (Writing)
Fletcher, Ralph; Portalupi JoAnn – 2002
The four videotapes and a viewing guide cover all the practical components necessary for establishing and implementing a successful writing workshop, including the importance of choice, creating a risk-taking environment, the difference between skills and craft, the writer's notebook, the writing conference, revision, the role of literature, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Role
Freeman, Marcia S. – 1998
In this video, an educator models efficient peer writing conferences in a third-grade classroom. The video demonstrates peer conferencing at work and its value in the daily writing workshop. An important sharing technique is included in the model. Key concepts are listed and reiterated. The model presented in the video may be used at any grade…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Videotape Recordings
Au, Kathryn H.; Carroll, Jacquelin H.; Scheu, Judith A. – 1997
Bringing together information elementary school teachers need to make balanced literacy instruction a reality, this book presents more than 90 short articles designed to be read in a brief period of time and suitable for use in after-school workshops. It presents ideas and instructional approaches teachers have found most valuable and effective in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
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