Welcome to Writing Workshop

<p>Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with <i>Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works</i>. Through strategic routines tips resources and short focused video clips teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where:</p><p>• Both students and teachers are working authors</p><p>• Students spend most of their time writing—not just learning about it• Student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers not compliant ones</p><p>• Students are part of the formative assessment process</p><p>• Students will look forward to writing time—not dread it.</p><p>From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and mini-lessons this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.</p>