| Description |
xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275). |
| Contents |
Understanding the essential characteristics of the writing workshop -- The necessity of a writing workshop in a day already full of writing -- Teaching and the development of writing identities -- The tone of workshop teaching -- Time in the workshop as a predictable event -- Getting started with independent writing time -- Managing predictable distractions in the writing workshop -- Understanding that slightly out-of-hand feeling in the workshop -- Getting ready to teach -- The nature of workshop curriculum -- Teaching a whole class of very individual writers -- Whole-class units of study in the writing workshop -- Conferring : the essential teaching act -- Making share time a better time -- The writing workshop teacher's plan book -- Assessment and evaluation : the questions become the curriculum -- On loving worksheets in the writing workshop -- Publish or perish, and predictable problems along the way. |
| Subject |
Creative writing (Elementary education)
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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| Added Author |
Laminack, Lester L., 1956-
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| ISBN |
0814113176 paperback |
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