Launching Writer's Workshop | Minilessons to Build & Grow Writers

This collection of writing mini-lessons is to launch your Writers Workshop by building a community of writers who share, grow and learn together. Students will learn strategies for generating writing ideas and developing story ideas. Along with building community, this unit will set the guidelines and expectations of Writers Workshop.

Key Teaching Points included:

• Who are we as writers?
• What is a Writers Notebook?
• Personalize our notebooks
• Reading like a writer
• Generate ideas for writing (with anchor chart)
• Mapping the neighborhood (with anchor chart)
• Heart Map (with anchor chart)
• People/Place lists (with anchor chart)
• Storytelling with exaggeration
• Collecting Entries in my writers notebook (with anchor chart)
• Creating a volume of entries
• Watermelon vs. Seed Ideas (with anchor chart)
• Choosing a Seed Idea & Narrowing the Time Frame
• Building Stories Step by Step (with anchor chart/notebook inserts)
• Drafting (with anchor chart)
• Revising (with anchor chart)
• Leads
• Endings
• Editing (with anchor chart)
• Publishing (with anchor chart)
• Celebration
• Expectations of Writers Workshop (with anchor chart)

This unit of study will take the writer through the whole process one full time to produce one published piece. Its important for students to see how working through the process can build a strong piece of writing. This unit was planned using ideas from Lucy Calkins Units of Study in Writing for Grades 3-5 and Ralph Fletchers Live Writing and How to Write Your Life Story.

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