Getting Started: Launching the Writing Workshop

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Unit1

• Getting Started Launching the Writing Workshop

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• Getting Started With Writers
  Workshop
• What it looks and sounds like.

Teaching Point 1a
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• Writers
• choose writing
• topics using an idea bag or
• an idea list.

Teaching Point 1b
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• Writers
• use a sketch to
• plan their writing.

Teaching Point 1c
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• Writers use important people in their lives to
  sketch and
• write about.

Teaching Point 2
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• Writers
• learn
• how to talk
• with a
• Writing
• Partner.

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• Writers use important
• places
• (settings)
• in their lives to sketch and write about.

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• Writers add
• setting details
• to their stories in order to make the readers
• visualize
• (make pictures in
• their minds).

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• Writers revise by adding dialogue.
• They add the actual words the character says.

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• Writers
• leave clues
• for the reader to figure out
• (show not tell).

Teaching Point 6
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• Writers
• read and look through books to get writing ideas

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• Writers
• learn to spell using a personal
  spelling list.

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• Writers
• spell the best
• they can
• by stretching out the sounds in words.

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• Writers
• learn to write
• using
• specific
• details.

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• Writers
• use ending punctuations to give their writing
  power and voice.

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• Writers
• choose a piece
• to
• polish, publish, and practice.

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• Writers make
• their writing
• look special in order to share it at the
• writing celebration.

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• Writers Celebration
• Writers share published writing with
  others.