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| Writer's Workshop |
| Writing is a cycle. Third graders take a piece of their writing through this cycle several times in one year. Along the way they are introduced to strategies that real life authors use to make their writing better. |
| Collect ideas |
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| Choose a seed idea |
| Nurture seed idea |
| Draft |
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| Revise |
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| Edit |
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| Publish |
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| Celebrate |
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| We write about anything we want to write about. After about 2 weeks, we have many ideas from which to choose. |
| We each read through our writer's notebooks and choose one idea we would like to take through the writing process. |
| Envision |
| We envision structures for our ideas - will they become short stories? vignettes? poems? |
| We enhance our ideas by talking about them with partners; or we draw a story board to plan the sequence. |
| We read through all work we've done on our ideas and start writing. |
| We try to make our pieces better by adding specific ways with words, for instance: similes, changing the lead, repetition for effect, etc. |
| We edit each other's pieces. |
| We work on writing and illustrating our pieces. |
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| We read our published pieces! |
| This cycle lasts anywhere from 4 weeks in the begin- ning of the year to 2 weeks as the year progresses. |
| These ideas are adapted from Katie Wood Ray's Writer's Workshop. |
| Third graders analyze stories - they learn to read like writers- looking for new ways to make their stories better. |
| Our Writing Process |
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