Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works. Through strategic routines tips resources and short focused video clips teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where: • Both students and teachers are working authors • Students spend most of their time writing-not just learning about it• Student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers not compliant ones • Students are part of the formative assessment process • Students will look forward to writing time-not dread it. From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and mini-lessons this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers. |Welcome to Writing Workshop Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works