Writing Process for Upper Elementary Grade Writers

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Launching the Writing Workshop

• Writing Process for Upper Elementary Grade
  Writers
• Grades 6-8

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Launching the Writing Workshop

• Introductions
• Sharing Personal Narrative
• Model demonstrating
• Partner introductions sharing
• Writing How are you feeling about your
  experience so far?

Launching the Writing Workshop Grades 3-5
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Writing Choice

• Write about a time when writing was successful or
  empowering to you. OR
• Write about a time when writing was frustrating
  or did not feel good to you.
• Be prepared to share your experience with a
  partner.

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I. Starting the Writing Workshop

• Connection
• Begins minilesson how it will fit into their
  lives as writers
• Celebrate the wonderful memories that fill the
  classroom, but remind students that the goals is
  not only to remember but also to think.
• Teaching Point tell students what youll be
  teaching them
• Teaching
• Next something theyll use often as they write
• Demonstrate a strategy we use to write with
  greater accuracy, fluency and comprehension.
• Use an example of one childs work in order to
  show the steps a writer can take in order to
  generate and shape expository sections of a text.

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I. Starting the Writing Workshop contd

• Active Engagement
• Then give all students a quick opportunity to try
  what weve taught
• Set students up to examine one students draft,
  looking for the structure in it
• Review the steps this student took to structure
  her writing and timeline her thoughts, steps that
  you also hope other writers might take
• Link
• To bring closure, we usually link the minilesson
  to what the class learned on a previous day
• Jot a note in the margin and keep going. Remember
  the writing process involves drafting, then
  researching, analyzing and deciding, then making
  and revising plans.

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Writing

• What are the big things you think about?
• Record three.
• Pick a small moment. Choose one to write about.
• Which aspect of a small moment had most high
  emotion or conflicting emotion?
• Make a connection to the personal narrative. Make
  a movie and act it out play and make meaning.
• What are the emotions from your small moment?
• Record them.
• What are the conflicting emotions?
• Record them. Expand on one of these emotions.

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Share

• Mid-workshop (mid-interrupt strategy) to add a
  new piece from the group
• Complement a place of success to build on
  positive in conference

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Discussion Sharing

• Who is the reading for audience?
• Mini-lesson attributes set up
• Personal narrative
• Small moment

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References
Predictable Problem Possible Solution
Writers feel stuck or have no ideas CHART that lists generating strategies posting directing students to them Talking conference get the writer talking edging the to a story, interrupt them your ready to go
Writers not writing with enough volume (stamina) Put a dot or in the margin (clear short term goal) Goal setting
Teacher dependency CHART teach task Partnership protocol - teacher can choose partner Rush with hands up clear from teacher expect get started on own, teacher not attend to hand right away
Talking not writing Practice, practice, practice, more clear productive, maintain tone/ silence signals
Writer with multiple ideas how to pick a seed idea CHART pin point
Use anchor texts for teachers Read alouds CHARTS
Sharing time, protect time, child want to share
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II. Generating More Writing pg 15

• Minilesson
• Connection
• Teaching
• Active Engagement
• Link

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3. The Writing Process for Upper-Elementary-Grade
Writers

• Teaching 8-, 9-, 10 year-olds the Writing
  Process
• Read pages 12 13 to yourself
• JIGSAW Chapter 3 Each member reads two
  sections to share with whole group
• Pacing Materials
• Rehearsal for Writing
• Drafting
• Revision
• Editing
• Cycling through the Entire Process

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Linking Reading and Writing

• Writers can start a story by describing the
  setting. We can name the time and place, but we
  can take this further as in
• Lois Lowrys - Crow Call

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Linking Reading to Writing

• Writers use gestures, postures, and facial
  expressions to show the emotions that our
  characters are experiencing.