This video workshop for elementary school teachers uses classroom footage to demonstrate how a writing workshop approach motivates intermediate students and helps them become proficient and independent writers. Ten teachers from across the country model teaching strategies and share reflections on their practice. Six nationally known experts in writing instruction comment on teaching and using the writing workshop approach with upper elementary students. The package includes eight 30-minute workshop programs, eight 30-minute classroom programs, a workshop guide, and a Web site.
Episode # 1
How can teachers in grades 3
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 2
This program shows third-grade teacher Latosha Rowley sharing her writing with her students and reflecting on the experience as a writer and as a teacher. It also includes several vignettes featuring other teachers who build community in their classrooms through modeling and sharing their own writing.
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 3
This program examines practices that motivate students to write: choosing their own topics and making writing decisions, keeping a writer
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 4
Viewers will see strategies and practices that encourage students to write. Teacher Mark Hardy
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 5
The relationship between reading and writing in the intermediate classroom is explored. The program demonstrates ways in which reading inspires students and helps them learn the craft of writing, including the use of touchstone and mentor texts.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 6
Through interviews and classroom footage, this program demonstrates how teachers, including Christine Sanchez, Cristina Tijerina, Sheryl Bock, and Mark Hansen, incorporate works by published authors into their writing instruction.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 7
This program examines whole-class instruction in the writing workshop, looking at why teachers choose this type of instruction and how they integrate it with other instructional strategies such as working with individuals and small groups.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 8
Silvia Edgerton teaches her fifth-grade students how to make their writing more vivid by zooming in on details, shown in a lesson unfolding over several days.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 9
The program demonstrates how teachers incorporate conferences with students into their writing instruction. Viewers will see how teachers structure conferences, choose a teaching focus for the conference, and keep records of their interactions. The emphasis is on practical strategies and on the fundamental benefit of responding personally to student writing.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 10
This program features extensive footage of three effective student/teacher conferences in one fifth-grade and two third-grade classes. These conferences demonstrate how teachers use conferences to focus on instruction for individuals while helping students feel ownership of their work.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 11
One way to provide an authentic audience for young writers is to have them share their work with each other. This program shows how teachers help students respond to their peers by modeling appropriate behavior and teaching protocols for student responses.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 12
Third-grade teacher Jeanne Boiarsky teaches a peer conference protocol to her class and Lindsay Dibert
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 13
For elementary-age children, revision is often new and challenging. This program shows how teachers overcome students
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 14
Nicole Outsen guides her fifth-grade students through revising an introduction to a newspaper article. She uses her own research notes to model the thinking and decision-making that writers do.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 15
This program explores how teachers incorporate writing into other subjects and bring subject-area content into the writing workshop. It includes examples from several classrooms including fifth, fourth, and third grades.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 16
The final program provides an example of content-area writing in a fifth-grade science class: recording observations about chicken bones as part of a lesson on anatomy.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Length : 28 min
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