Module 2

Teach Mini Lessons that Make a Major Impact

Now that you know the framework that will get you the results your students need, it’s time to maximize your mini lesson time.

Here, you’ll learn the basics of every writing mini lesson. You will know exactly what you need to teach and be given simple strategies for using mentor text and anchor charts. The best part is that you will learn how to shorten those lessons so that your students have more time to write!

Highlights:

• Learn the must-teach writing lessons for narrative, informational and opinion writing using my Guide to What to Teach During Writing.
• Unearth a simple way to use mentor text in your writing lessons OR gather books from my suggested mentor book list.
• Discover a simple way to use anchor charts to model writing skills, even if you don’t have an artistic bone in your body.
•  Learn five strategies for keeping the lessons short.

Module 3

Get Your Students Writing Independently

You’ve delivered the mini lesson like a pro, so now it is time to get your students writing!

 Here, you’ll determine what students are going to write about and how you will expertly help them to generate those topics. You will choose the writing notebook that will work best for your students and learn a simple approach to help students to spend an ample amount of time revising their work. Finally, you will learn about the magic of giving daily writing tasks!

Highlights:

• Discover four simple lessons that will give your students dozens of ideas for their next story.
• Learn the pros and the cons of four different types of writing notebooks.
• Ascertain strategies for setting up student notebooks so that writers have plenty of space to make revisions.
• Set up a routine where students will spend the majority of their writing time revising- and they might not even notice!
• Master the use of daily writing tasks to keep your students progressing and growing as they write.

Module 4

Simple Ways to Conference with Every Writer

Now that you your students are independently writing, you have the opportunity to conference with your writers to differentiate and meet their unique needs.

Here, you’ll learn about two types of conferences that are actually practical. You will be able to meet with every one of your writers each week without feeling overwhelmed using small groups and desk side conferencing. You’ll discover the exact things to say and do during your conferences so that the time is used wisely.

If you have ever struggled with trying to edit everyone’s writing during conferences, you will receive a new approach that will relieve the stress!

Highlights:

• Implement two types of conferencing with ease, even if conferencing has never worked for you in the past.
• Discover the exact things you should say and do during your next writing conference.
• Use my writing group posters to help make your conferencing groups.
• Master the ability to help a student edit their own writing to the best of their ability.
• Grab my writing conference tracker forms to keep your conference notes organized.

Module 5

Getting Writing Grades Without Taking Papers Home Every Day

Your students are producing some amazing work and it’s time to give them a grade in the gradebook.

Here, you’ll learn ways to collect grades for writing that don’t always involve grading a huge stack of writing samples. However, you will have no choice but to grade some writing samples, and so you will gather some tips for using a rubric to make it less painful.

Grading is mandatory, but it doesn’t have to be agonizing.

Highlights:

• Identify the one thing that you should never grade.
• Unearth four ways to grab writing grades that are quick, but meaningful.
• Learn three strategies that will make using writing rubrics easier and the grading process more manageable.
• Use my simple writing rubrics in your classroom.

Module 6

Share Student Writing Daily

Now it is time to share your students’ writing. After all, writers write to be heard.

Here, you learn why it is time to ditch the old author’s chair in favor of a strategy that will allow every writer to share every day. You will also discover unique ways to publish student writing and ways to celebrate writing that will have students begging for more time to write.

Highlights:

• Discover the simple strategy that will allow every one of your students to share their writing every day with only five minutes of class time.
• Explore new and out-of-the-box ways to publish student writing.
• Plan a writing celebration that is simple to implement and will wow your students using my Guide to Celebrating Writers.

Module 7

Starting your Writing Workshop Today

Now that you know exactly how to run a successful writing workshop, it is time to implement the approach in your classroom.

Here, you’ll learn the basics of getting your writing workshop off the ground. You will discover the procedures that you will need to teach to your students and learn about a super effective way to train your students to work within your workshop model.

Even if you have struggled to teach procedures in the past, you will be a pro after this lesson!

Highlights:

• Learn a simple and effective approach to teaching absolutely any classroom procedure (even if you have a challenging group).
• Discover the five procedures that you must teach and practice during the first week.
• Use my lesson plans, anchor charts and printables to get the best results during your first week of writing workshop.