1. Learning Outcomes
Teachers-in-training should be able to:
• Explain how teachers should support the development of good
young writers in a discussion forum
• Describe how the writer’s workshop and other strategies can be
used to enhance and aid in developing good young writer in a
video presentation.

2. Assessment
• Class discussion
• Demonstration/description of writer’s workshop

3. Activities
• After perusing literature on the topic, students will discuss how
teachers should support the development of good young writers
in a discussion forum
• Using the relevant resources, students will describe how the
writer’s workshop and other strategies can be used to enhance
writing.

4. Content
• Teachers’ roles
– role model, offer scaffolding, give varying
opportunities to write, be creative and allow
for creativity
• “Strategies are problem-solving behaviours that
writers use thoughtfully and consciously,”
(Tompkins, 2000).

5. Content contd.
• The Writer’s Workshop
–A community of writers working together to
produce and share writing, receive and share
instruction, and encourage one another as
writers,” (Cramer, 2004).
• Strategies
–Author’s Chair, Story Mapping, Language
Experience Approach, Interactive Writing,
Graphic Organizers