Building Young Writers with Writer's Workshop

Whether your students are in kindergarten, third grade, middle school or high school, the Young Writers contest provides a great opportunity. It is a writing task that fits any writing theme you may already have in place, so we hope that you'll take this opportunity to enter your students' work. In years past, teachers went to great efforts to publish beautiful books, and although beautiful books make great keepsakes, the focus for judging will be on the content of the finished product. 

To help support teachers in the area of writing, we thought we'd share with you links to blog posts and articles that may help you with implementing writer's workshop in your classroom. Below, please find the titles and a brief summary of the link information.

WRITER'S WORKSHOP HANDBOOK

This handbook includes great information for how to get started as well as printable handouts for quick reference. [CLICK HERE] TO DOWNLOAD,

WRITER'S WORKSHOP IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM

This article from Edutopia gives step by step information from High School English Teacher, Shelley Scoffield. [CLICK HERE]

TEACHERS FIRST-WRITER'S WORKSHOP BY GRADE LEVEL

This website includes a breakdown of writer's workshop by grade level including introduction, mini lessons, status of the class, writing and conferring, and sharing. [CLICK HERE]

WRITING FIX

This website offers a wealth of information including lessons that are ready to implement. It follows the six writing traits. Teachers can use the lessons as mini lessons and writing options. [CLICK HERE]

LITERACY TODAY-WRITER'S WORKSHOP

This website offers a wealth of information including lessons that are ready to implement. It follows the six writing traits. Teachers can use the lessons as mini lessons and writing options. [CLICK HERE]

YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT

The Young Writers Contest has been distributed to all division contacts. If you have not received the packet from your division contact you may download it using the link below. If you received it, we will alert you to two important updates. First, this year, we have enlarged the poetry criteria to include between three and five poems. There was a discrepancy in one place where the file was not edited to read five instead of four poems. Also, PARC judging will occur on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST. Division judging will be completed by FEBRUARY 9TH so that the winning entries can be forwarded to the PARC board. [CLICK HERE] to download the Young Writers packet. 

If you have any questions related to the Young Writers Project, please email us at vsrapiedmont@gmail.com

Sincerely,

The PARC Board