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|  | | | Writer's Workshop
Depending on your class situation and
available time, Writer's Workshop activities is a useful and meaningful
extension to the current curriculum. Writer's Workshop is a
teaching technique that invites sutdents to write by making the process
a meaningful part of the classroom curriculum. Writing is an
expected activity on a daily basis. Students are exposed to the
organization and thought required to create a story or write about a
favorite topic. Because they are allowed to chose the topic,
students are motivated to create and complete works to read to
classmates.
For Kindergarten stduents, whose skills will
greatly vary, the goal is to move pre-emergent readers into the writing
process by eliciting a story from a drawing, and encouraging the
student to move from drawing to writing by guiding the student in the
use of phonetics to sound out words. Ideally, students become
enamored by the power of their words, and will strive for the
independence of fluency. Writer's Workshop can be paired with
reading activities to create a powerful motivating tool when teaching
literacy.
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