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.