• Writer's Workshop
    I absolutely love to teach ELA! Writer's workshop is something that I strongly believe in. I cannot wait to get started this school year. In our classroom, we will follow a model by Lucy Calkins and Katie Wood Ray. During our writing time, students will be involved in the writing process for about 30 minutes.  During this time, students will work independently on self-selected writing, while I conference with students and deliver lessons to them based on their specific writing needs. Again, this is in addition to the time students spend engaged in writing during Daily Five! Below is an example of our Writer's Workshop model.
     
    10-15 minutes Mini-lesson as part of "Writer's Meeting", using a picture book to look at author's craft.
    10 minutes "The Quiet Ten"- ten minutes where everyone spends time engaged in writing, drawing, or pre-writing activities independently.
    20 minutes Independent writing- the teacher may schedule writing conferences, students will continue to work through the writing process, or students who are ready to publish their work may be using our mini computer lab to publish or may be found helping a fellow student with writing process.