The Reading & Writing Project - Reading and Writing Performance Assessments. If you are experiencing difficulties viewing the PDF documents below we recommend that you download Foxit PDF Reader. Common-Core-Aligned Performance Assessments These performance assessments were created by the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project for NYC Department of Education and some are owned by NYC Department of Education. The NYC Department of Education has agreed to allow Teachers College Reading and Writing Project to post the performance assessments online to support your students' academic progress.
You must obtain permission from the NYC Department of Education for any other use of the assessments. Performance Assessments engage students in authentic, high-level work that is aligned to curricular standards so that teachers can more carefully plan for instruction that meets students where they are and moves them forward. In the case of the second grade assessment, children will study nonfiction reading and informational book writing as two separate but related units. Structure of a Writing Mini Lesson. How to Start Writers Workshop. So Now You Know What To Do, What Next?
Knowing where and how to start Writer's Workshop can be very difficult It is hard to know how to organize the students if the teacher isn't sure how they want to organized!! Before I ever start teaching the Writing Process (Brainstorm, Draft, Revise, Edit, Final Draft and Publish) I spend the first few weeks setting up Writers Workshop routines in my class. Many of these ideas are the ideas that I learned at my district's Writing Institute or other fantastic teachers I have worked with (Emily, that would be you : )!!!
), so I cannot take credit for all these ideas. These are all my beginning of the year writing workshop routine lessons in the order I teach them. After I teach one of these mini lessons students write independently in their writers notebooks while I conferences with them. Then we share at the end of class. I have recently revised these lessons. Books Used for Mini Lessons Starting Writers Workshop Mini Lessons Books Used for Mini Lessons. Writers' Workshop K-6 - Minilessons. Mini Lesson Basics5-10 minutes longmulti-levelprecedes independent writing timeexplicit instructionassessment basedfocus on procedures and organisation (routines), strategies and processes, skills, craft and techniquescomposed of four major parts: Connection (teacher puts today's work in the context of children's ongoing work as writers and explicitly names what they'll be learning about today); Teach (explicit teaching of one important concept that will make their writing better, often drawing upon own writing, children's literature or student's writing); Active Engagement (students talk to a partner or examine their own writing for evidence of the concept); Link (encouraging students to try out the strategy in their writing that day or to add it to their toolkit of strategies)Mini Lesson Challengeshandling student participationkeeping minilessons briefteaching with clarity and purposemaintaining student engagement Examples of Mini Lesson Topics Mini Lesson Planning Sheet.
Pinterest- Writing Workshop Mini Lessons. Writing Mini-Lessons. This year’s writing instruction will focus on the pursuit of good writing, with explicit instruction to help students begin to master some of the complex and nuanced qualities of exceptional writing. The goal is for students to improve their writing and simultaneously develop myriad approaches to writing that empower students to effectively evaluate and improve their own writing and thinking. To this end, students will participate in writing workshops of at least forty-five minutes three to five times a week. The writing workshop begins with a mini-lesson of five to thirty minutes and continues with independent writing, during which time I circulate among writers and meet with individuals or small groups. At any point during the writing workshop, students may share their written work in progress and receive constructive feedback from their peers and me.
The writing workshop mini-lessons provide a writing course of study. Hoover Lutz Writing Workshop Mini Lessons. 05%20Writers%20Workshop%20v001%20(Full) Writer's Workshop Resources and Ideas. The majority of time of Writing Workshop is devoted to independent writing. During this time, students are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing their pieces. Depending on the age and abilities of your students, independent writing can be as short as 15 minutes or as long as 45-60 minutes.
It helps to build stamina with your class, beginning with a short amount of time and building that time until they can work for up 30 minutes or more. According to Katie Wood Ray (The Writing Workshop, 2001), students can also do other activities during their writing time, such as writing in their schema notebooks journal writing writing exercises to experiment with language and style conducting peer-conferences reading to support writing During independent writing time, the teacher confers with students about their writing.
Teachers should keep conferences short. Websites on Conferring: Writer's Toolbox-A Writer's Workshop Website. Launching Writers’ Workshop. The newly updated (August 2015) 19 mini-lesson free launching unit is available here: Launching Your Writing Workshop An amazing launch unit is the key to a successful writing workshop in your classroom! Use the lessons we’ve laid out below to help guide you through setting up a great workshop. Because this unit is designed to build the foundation of your writing workshop, not all lessons cover common core standards. Many of our lesson are based on the work done by Katie Wood Ray in About the Authors. The writing workshop created by following our lessons will lead to a workshop where students are writing books everyday. Another component of this writing workshop is using real books by real, published authors to teach children what authors do.
Like all writing workshops, ours begins with a mini-lesson, gives children time to write while the teachers conferences with individuals or small groups and ends with sharing. Simple Story Plan Story Plan Box Story Board Nonfiction Plan.