This seminar shows how primary students can learn from professional writers, work with intension, and think about their own process in a writing workshop that is designed to support learning and respond sensitively to the developmental needs of children in the early grades.

Teachers will discuss the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate writing workshop, and learn the procedures for implementing a workshop and managing it throughout the year, including strategies for planning and organizing minilessons into powerful units of study. Teachers will learn the kinds of support young children need to begin thinking like experienced writers, and techniques for conferences and assessment that support and extend children's writing.

Recommended Grade Level
Grades K - 2

Included Text
Lisa Cleaveland, Katie Wood Ray
About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers