Writing Like Writers: Guiding Elementary Children Through a Writer's Workshop [Paperback]

Build a classroom of excited, talented young writers. This wonderful teaching resource offers a complete approach to creating a classroom of enthusiastic, skillful student writers.

The authors provide a comprehensive approach to teaching writing in the classroom. This book offers the strategies teachers need to teach writing skills that meet national standards and to produce excellent results from children.

Topics addressed in this guidebook include:

• creating the writing classroom,
• teaching the writing process,
• teaching effective writing strategies,
• teaching elements of story structure,
• teaching the advanced craft of writing, and
• using a writer's workshop to teach good writing.

Writing is a great differentiator. During the writer's workshop, each student is engaged in meaningful ways. Pulling together more than three decades of practical experience and research on the best strategies for teaching writing, Writing Like Writers offers a friendly, easy-to-use guide for any teacher seeking to build a classroom of successful writers.

Grades 2-6Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Beginnings Preparing Materials for a Writing Classroom Connecting Writing Instruction to Writing Standards The Home/School Partnership 2: Living the Writers Workshop The Structure of Writers Workshop Scaffolding Writing Teaching and Learning Strategies Used in Writers Workshop Accountability in Writers Workshop 3: Exploring The Writing Process Prewriting Drafting Conferring Revising Editing Publishing 4: Teaching Effective Writing Strategies Read Like a Writer Show, Dont Tell Use the Five Senses Zoom! 5: Teaching the Elements of Story Structure Characters Plot Point of View Setting Theme 6: Teaching the Craft of Writing Dialogue Endings Leads Precise Words Repeated Words Sound Words Titles Transitions Visual Imagery Voice 7: Assessing Wrl“'