Ww U1 Celebration

Sit in a mixe 3,4,5 d grou p.

Celebration!

Kicking off Units of Study Grades 3-5: Launching the Writing Workshop- Unit 1

Wednesday, October 14: 3:15-4:30 Monday, October 19, 2009

Celebrating The Work... ✤

Teacher Work:

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20 min 3:15-3:35 pm

Student Work:

Charts!

Student Notebooks!

Teacher Notebooks!

Discovery Drafts!

Anecdotal Notes!

Personal Narratives!

Rubrics! **Carpeted Walls!

Monday, October 19, 2009

WT Rep: Please record notes of your 10 minute “How’s It Going?” discussion with your mixed team.

Celebrating Student Work- Protocol Please move so you are sitting with your grade level team.

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Writing NotebooksCelebrating Student Learning 20 min 3:35-3:55 pm

Monday, October 19, 2009

We Must Model Our Own Writing! “Teachers of writing who have been soldiers themselves, engaged in a writing battle, must be able to empathize more closely with the comrades in their classroom than teachers who are merely war correspondents at the hotel bar, as it were, watching the battle from a safe distance, declining to get in there themselves and write. (p. 11- Radical Reflections by Mem Fox) Monday, October 19, 2009

Celebrating Charts as Teaching and Learning Tools

8 min, 3:55-4:03 pm

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Charting allows students to see YOU model the action of writing.

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Charting and posting those charts provides a trail of the work which is easy for our learners to follow.

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A chart is not a poster.

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2 types of charts in WW: Anchor charts/”Work” charts

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Chart share...

Monday, October 19, 2009

Preparing for what’s next...

22 min 4:03-4:25 pm

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Jen to overview Unit 2: Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing

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Teams time to begin to discuss: ✓

unit focus

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lessons/charting/anchor and mentor texts

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assessment

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calendar/pace

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final product expectations and celebration format options

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coaching sign-ups

Monday, October 19, 2009

“Teamwork”- I’ll send this in an email... 1. Please complete the quick poll on my blog “What is the hardest switch to make when moving to the workshop approach?” 2. Teams need to discuss and begin to make changes to Unit 1. These changes can include pacing (modify the calendar), assessment targets, culling and copying student samples from your grade to use in place of the NYC samples, anchor texts, etc. One copy of these changes need to be give to each GL writing team rep to bring to our next WT meeting... (if possible!) 3. Together, please brainstorm 3-5 training ideas for me to work on with TAs in the area of writing workshop.

Other Teaming Opportunities: ๏

2 min 4:25-4:30 pm

Read and discuss the Professional Reading: Chapter 13- “Focus Lessons: Whole Class Teaching in the Writing Workshop” by Katie Wood Ray (from: The Writing Workshop)

We will CELEBRATE Unit 2 in November. Date TBD. Monday, October 19, 2009