UNITS OF STUDY
RESOURCES
HELPFUL HINTS:
WORKSHOP SETUP:
Tools...pens, markers, pencils
Writing Folder
Writing Paper
Meeting space
Writing center..tools
Paper
Mini Word Wall
Date stamps
Anchor Charts
Revision add on flap
WORKSHOP FRAMEWORK:
Call them WRITERS
Mini Lessons...
Connection: Writer’s Today...
Teaching Point: Today I want to teach
Teach: Watch Me
Active Engagement: Your turn to try...turn and talk
List across my fingers, talk across my fingers
Link: Today and everyday, remember I heard someone say...
Off you go...WRITERS!
4 Methods During a Mini Lesson...
Demonstration
Explain with an Example
Guided Practice
Inquiry
Conference/Small Groups
Mid-workshop Teaching
Management
Management during the Minilesson:
Involve students connections
Demonstration
10 minutes
Get students to start doing the work in their minds
Active engagement, your turn...turn and talk..write in the air..list across fingers, stop and jot
Partner time
Talk less... write more
Management during Writing Time:
Support and foster students thoughts
Continue teaching during the writing time
Send off Transition Off you go…
Decide what you need to do today
Draw and write
Choose a topic
Plan
Write Revise
Work is influenced by mini-lesson
Work with partner like levels
Managing Conferring
One to one conferences and small group
SMALL MOMENTS
Small Moment Anchor Charts
Small Moment
Introduce Small Moments
Read Mentor Text: The Kissing Hand (first day school, new teacher, new student)
Teach students to use events from their lives, things they like to do or have happened.