Creating a Homeschool Writing Workshop – Post #1

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  1. October 29, 2013

    […] writing resource books — I also have a whole bunch of new resource materials that I keep on hand and refer to or re-read pretty often. Again, there’s so much to say about those that I will save that for another post. So there we go… I think I’ve said about as much as there is to say about creating our homeschool writing workshop space and gathering the materials we need each day.  The last thing to add is that this has made a HUGE difference to the way writing goes.  Once we enter that space, we all know it’s writing time and somehow we center down and get to the task at hand. The next post will talk a bit more about the actual rhythm of our writing workshop… what we do each day… and what some of the mini-lessons entail.  And, I promise there’ll be a post about the writing resource books I have read (and recommend) and also a post to share the various writing workshop materials I made (a packet of 25 pages or so).  So, it looks like there are at least 3 or 4 more posts to come in this series! Don’t Miss the Previous Post in this Series: Creating a Homeschool Writing Workshop – Post #1 — How/Why we needed a change in our wri… […]

  2. November 4, 2013

    […] In the first post in this series, I explained how we had dabbled in writing, but had never found a “program” or curriculum that worked well for us.  I found some expert advice from primary classroom teachers, though, and set about creating a workshop that works for our family. I learned about the 6+1 writing traits (the basic qualities that make writing work) and about using mini-lessons to cover some of the basic writing characteristics (which include: ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation).  I read through a lot of books written by experienced teachers who shared some of the Mini-Lessons and writing ideas that worked for them in the classroom.   […]

  3. November 4, 2013

    […] In the first post in this series, I explained how we had dabbled in writing, but had never found a “program” or curriculum that worked well for us.  I found some expert advice from primary classroom teachers, though, and set about creating a workshop that works for our family. I learned about the 6+1 writing traits (the basic qualities that make writing work) and about using mini-lessons to cover some of the basic writing characteristics (which include: ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation).  I read through a lot of books written by experienced teachers who shared some of the Mini-Lessons and writing ideas that worked for them in the classroom.   […]

  4. December 2, 2013

    […] Creating a Homeschool Writing Workshop — Post #1: How and Why We Got Started with a Workshop Model. […]

  5. December 2, 2013

    […] Creating a Homeschool Writing Workshop — Post #1: How and Why We Got Started with a Workshop Model. […]

  6. December 12, 2013

    […] LD jumped right in to writing this week… not a complaint or a groan.  🙂 This is a big step forward even from the beginning of the year. The writing workshop model works SO well for us now!! (If you want to read more about that you can read my series: Creating a Writing Workshop.) […]

  7. December 12, 2013

    […] LD jumped right in to writing this week… not a complaint or a groan.  🙂 This is a big step forward even from the beginning of the year. The writing workshop model works SO well for us now!! (If you want to read more about that you can read my series: Creating a Writing Workshop.) […]

  8. January 2, 2014

    […] can read this series on Creating a Writing Workshop to see how/why we came up with this model and how it works in our […]

  9. January 2, 2014

    […] can read this series on Creating a Writing Workshop to see how/why we came up with this model and how it works in our […]

  10. January 6, 2014

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  12. January 17, 2014

    […] on to read the other four stories in that book.  For our writing workshop (see more about our homeschool writing workshop here), I had the kids try writing in the style of Dr. Seuss. LD groaned and said he can’t rhyme […]

  13. January 17, 2014

    […] on to read the other four stories in that book.  For our writing workshop (see more about our homeschool writing workshop here), I had the kids try writing in the style of Dr. Seuss. LD groaned and said he can’t rhyme […]

  14. January 27, 2014

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  18. February 17, 2014

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  22. February 27, 2014

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  26. March 6, 2014

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  27. March 6, 2014

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  28. March 10, 2014

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  29. March 10, 2014

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  30. May 5, 2014

    […] area.  (The kids and I write together every day… and you can see pictures of our “writing workshop area at the bottom of this post.). This wood forward facing book display was about $55 from Amazon. […]

  31. May 5, 2014

    […] area.  (The kids and I write together every day… and you can see pictures of our “writing workshop area at the bottom of this post.). This wood forward facing book display was about $55 from Amazon. […]

  32. June 9, 2014

    […] talk about some of the things we covered this year… everything from really diving into the Writing Workshop for the first time to our huge units on India, Gandhi, the Civil Rights Movement and China… […]

  33. June 9, 2014

    […] talk about some of the things we covered this year… everything from really diving into the Writing Workshop for the first time to our huge units on India, Gandhi, the Civil Rights Movement and China… […]

  34. June 12, 2014

    […] About Spelling: Even though ED has been writing with us for the past year in our homeschool writing workshop, I held off from starting a formal spelling program until this semester.  Once we started, though, […]

  35. June 12, 2014

    […] About Spelling: Even though ED has been writing with us for the past year in our homeschool writing workshop, I held off from starting a formal spelling program until this semester.  Once we started, though, […]

  36. August 18, 2014

    […] your own writing workshop: A series I did about how and why we started using a writing workshop format. Click here to see some of the Writing Workshop Lessons we […]

  37. August 18, 2014

    […] your own writing workshop: A series I did about how and why we started using a writing workshop format. Click here to see some of the Writing Workshop Lessons we […]

  38. October 18, 2014

    […] Creating a Homeschool Writing Workshop – This is the first in a long series (of about 10 or 12 posts) about how our homeschool writing workshop works. […]

  39. October 18, 2014

    […] Creating a Homeschool Writing Workshop – This is the first in a long series (of about 10 or 12 posts) about how our homeschool writing workshop works. […]

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