Tools for Writing: Creating Writer's Workshops for Grades 2-8

by Barbara Z. Boone

Overview

A series of teacher-friendly lessons designed to create a writers' workshop for pupils aged between seven and 13 years is contained in this step-by-step guide. The lessons range from introducing the terminology and methods of a writers' workshop to students to complex processes in creative and journalistic writing. Using the praise, questions and polish (PQP) strategies, each 10- to 15-minute lesson teaches a very specific writing skill.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803964570
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/01/1996
Series:	1-off Series
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	7 - 13 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction
Setting Up a Writers' Workshop
Procedural Minilessons
Assessing Writers' Workshop
Topic Choice
Minilessons
The Craft of Writing
Minilessons