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Great Source iwrite - Students: The Forms of Writing

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Video Writing Prompts. Facebook. Readers and Writers Workshop. Road to Reading. Writing and Technology The goal of this section is to develop writing skills through mini-lessons, modeling, shared writing, and independent writing.

Road to Reading

Using technology with writing is an excellent means of stimulating student creativity. Word processors can be used to draft, revise, edit and publish student work. Some scheduling of student computer use may be necessary in most classrooms since the number of computers is usually limited, although schools with computer labs would not experience this obstacle.

This scheduling of individual computer usage by students could be established during the Writing & Teacher Conferencing time.When completed, student work published on the computer may be illustrated, made into a book or the file could be saved as a web page and uploaded to the web. Technology can be an excellent tool for all writing purposes: Narrative writing--telling stories or sharing events with word processing, newspapers created through Publisher How many ways can you....? Writing (Fiction) Genres...Narrative & Memoir. Our Narrative Workshop's Focus Trait: Idea Development Our Narrative Workshop's Support Traits: Word Choice and Voice In our NNWP workshops, our Northern Nevada participants receive a complimentary copy of the NNWP's print publication, The Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide.

Genres...Narrative & Memoir

This 198-page resource is valued tool in Northern Nevada. Teachers not able to attend our workshops can purchase their own copy of this guide through the NNWP's website; all proceeds from the sale fund the WritingFix website. The best lessons focus more on the writing process than the writing product. While it's important to look at narrative writing as a "product" for inclusion in student portfolios, the more important thing to think about when designing narrative lessons is the skill-set your students will gain from going through the writing process.

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Elements of a Story

All rights reserved. Legal Policy. Son of Citation Machine. Www.misscantillon.com/Peeredit.pdf. Paragraph a Week Program. Mosaic Listserve Tools. Writing Workshop worksheets and writing printables. Story Starters. Story Starters During our daily Writer's Workshop, I encourage my kindergarten and first grade students to choose their own topics, so that their writing will be meaningful.

Story Starters

Most of the time, kids do their best writing when they're writing about what interests them, when they're telling a story they want to tell. Emergent writers and readers often draw a picture before they write, and then experiment with print in telling their stories. And they need lots of opportunities to play around with print and words, along with lots of praise and recognition for their efforts. As children learn more about how print works, I begin to see a shift in their writing. Even the best writers get stuck sometimes. As an adult writer, I use Story Starters for what author and teacher Natalie Goldberg calls "Writing Practice.

" Other writing teachers call this type of exercise Quick Writes or Free Writes. Some days you'll write on the same topic as your students. Writers Workshop. Teaching writers workshop is a beautiful and amazing thing because it allows our own creativity to flow out on to paper for our student’s to see.

Writers Workshop

Watch me model a lesson. :) I used to be scared to death of teaching writing. So, I didn’t really teach it. I was caught in a world of prompts, forced topics and “journals”. At the time I didn’t realize that this wasn’t building authors, I just knew that there was pencil put to paper, so I thought I was fine. In the past year I was introduced to “crafts”. I was in love with writing. Writer’s Workshop now is a joyous and electrifying time in my teaching day. So, where do you begin? Well, you need to learn the basic outline for Writer’s Workshop.

Let’s go through step by step with one of my favorite books The Very Lazy Ladybug. My Teaching Videos. RedKid.Net.