David Stoner
Indiana University Southeast Writing Project -2007

Writing Workshop

 Work with whole class or small groups of students to
provide general guidance on any aspects of writing
 Provide specific instruction via mini-lessons
 Allow students to often select their own topics with
feedback from educators
 Give individual conferences with writers, giving
selected feedback

 Use of word walls, dictionaries, thesaurus, and other
resources to help students write
 Use of words like ideas, organization, voice, word
choice, sentence fluency, and conventions used by
educators and students
 Use of mini-lessons and mentor texts for honing the
craft of writing
 Examples of books written by the students displayed
and celebrated

 Increase student ownership and responsibility by:
• helping students choose their own topics and goals
• using brief teacher-student conferences
• teaching students to review their own progress
 Increase class time spent on writing whole, original
pieces through:
• establishing real purposes for writing and students'
involvement in the task
• instruction in, and support for, all stages of writing
process
• pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing

 Increase teachers' modeling writing—drafting, revising,
sharing—as a fellow author, and as demonstrator of
processes
 Increase the learning of grammar and mechanics in
context, at the editing stage, and as items are needed
 Increase writing for a real audience; publishing for the
class and outside communities
 Increase writing across the curriculum as a tool for
learning

The Process Writing Steps
Life Experiences

The Seven Conditions for a Successful Workshop

Writing Workshop Mini Lessons from Data Collection

Whole Group and Small Group Mini Lesson Planning
Whole Group Mini Lesson: Small Group Mini Lesson: Small Group Mini Lesson:
Date: Date: Date:
Craft, Skills or Procedure: Craft, Skills or Procedure: Craft, Skills or Procedure:
Prep Needs: Prep Needs: Prep Needs:
Whole Group Mini Lesson: Small Group Mini Lesson: Small Group Mini Lesson:
Date: Date: Date:
Craft, Skills or Procedure: Craft, Skills or Procedure: Craft, Skills or Procedure:
Prep Needs: Prep Needs: Prep Needs:

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LESSONS

The
Teacher’s
Role in a
Conference
Part II

Part I

The
Student’s
Role in a
Conference
Part II

Whitney Sharing at the end of Writing Workshop

Jordan Shares his story about his grandfather.

-I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its
shoes.
-It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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-The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and
enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life - time, if not asked to
lend money.
-Always do right! This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
THE END - APRIL 15th, 2007
-Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from