Operational Mini-Lessons: Growing Up Writing A La Carte

This pack (30 pp.) contains eighteen operational mini-lessons that define writer's workshop and its procedure (demonstrating how to give and receive feedback, understanding and using rubrics to assess writing, conferencing feedback, etc.). For the most part, these lessons are oral and interactive: Introducing The First Journal; Defining Writer's Workshop; A Process to Manage Sharing; Managing Journals; Managing Writing Tools; Silent/Quiet Writing; Practicing Transitions in Writer's Workshop; Feedback; Audience Etiquette; Conference Etiquette; Making Writing Mistakes; How to Share Your Writing; Buddy Conferences; Adding On to a Previous Price; Introducing a Rubric; Examining the Attributes of a Rubric; Assessing Writing Using a Rubric; and Making a Plan for Improving Writing