Overview

Writing Workshop creates a consistent, predictable environment where students acquire skills, fluency, and confidence in writing as well as a desire to see themselves as authors. Lessons in writing presented include writing as a process, writing. strategies, and writer's craft. Lessons are short, focused, direct and done in whole-group instruction. Learners plan and generate writing, compose drafts, obtain feedback from the teacher and/or writing partners, revise compositions, edit compositions (their own) and practice writing as a craft. Meanwhile, the teacher may conference with students individually with a marked focus on guiding the writer to improve his/her craft. Teacher may also elect to work strategically with small groups (two to four students) who have similar needs utilizing "breakout " rooms. Selected writing examples, i.e., compositions or author trade books, chosen by the teacher serve as outstanding examples for modeling writing and are used to teach writer's style, conventions, text structure, word choice, craft, and genre. Some mentor texts are returned to again and again for reference over many weeks.

Writing Workshop empowers students to own their roles as writers. Teacher supports learners in growing as writers through teacher directed mini-lessons, assigned independent writing, and sharing compositions in group class sessions. Sharing provides the writing community with a time to share writing and revisit new learning. Students may share writing, provide connections made between mini-lessons and finished compositions. The use of mentor text and selected student written texts support learners by providing quality examples of writing as reference while composing their own original writing. This class involves writing discussion, modeling writing procedures, writer behaviors, and writing quality expectations in the form of writing rubric as an assessment tool.

Student work will follow the writing process for developing writers:

1. Prewriting/Brainstorming and planning: should use a graphic organizer, sketches, anything that gets your ideas flowing

2. Draft/Writing: point out student’s lack of attention to detail; the idea is to get thoughts down

3. Read, Respond, and Revise: point out the importance of reading what is written; making changes

4. Teacher Conference/ Responding: (you can’t model this, but explain to students what will happen)

5. Revise and Edit: tell students at this point they will return to their draft and make changes discussed in conference

6. Proofread: students will submit edited draft to a peer and then to teacher for final proof reading

7. Publishing: the proofread draft is returned for final copying and publishing

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February 26, 2021 - Courtney Willis
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December 23, 2020 - Hannah Cranford
Teacher Dominique has restored my daughters confidence in reading and writing and brought the fun back into learning. I will suggest her to all our friends and family. She gives us great tools to work with between sessions. My daughter now looks forward to reading. Teacher Dominique's class is the only online learning class that my Daughter is excited to join! THANK YOU for restoring her Joy in learning.
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July 27, 2020 - Radhika K
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My son had a good class with Teacher Dominique on writing. She conducted a one on one class with him as he missed some parts of the original class. We appreciated her for offering a make up class. Thank you.
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But I see that it started in May; is she going to be able to follow?
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Can I audit the class this weekend?
asked on Sep 02, 2020
Sep 02, 2020 - Dominique Prosper
Sure absolutely I have Saturday morning or afternoon available. -
Hi. I'm thinking of enrolling my 9 year old daughter in this class, but I'm still not sure its the right class for her. Would I be able to audit part of a class to determine a good fit? Please let me know. Thank you. -Sue Nadell -Gintel
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Sep 02, 2020 - Dominique Prosper
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Sep 02, 2020 - Dominique Prosper
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