Mini-Lessons: Write Like a Pro

1. Mini-Lessons: Write Like a Pro Lori Elliott tosaelliott@gmail.com

2. Developmental Stages of Writing Scribbling

3. Letter-Like Symbols to Transition

4. Strings of Letters to Conventional

5. Key Characteristics • Students decide what they will write about. • A sustained block of time is provided everyday for writing. • Student Selected and Focused writing takes place. • Routines, traditions, and rituals are used to orchestrate the workshop.

6. Structure of the Workshop Minilesson/ Modeling by the teacher Author’s Chair: Share Time Students Write & Teacher Conferences with Students

7. Mini-Lessons/Modeling • Short about 10 minutes. • Focused on one particular topic. • Always involve modeling: teacher writing, student samples, books.

8. Mini-Lessons and Technology • Smart Boards/ Interactive White Boards • Computers and Projectors • PowerPoint

9. Smart Board

10. Types of Mini-Lessons • Procedural • Conventional • Craft

12. Create a Writer’s Environment • Daily Writer’s Workshop Time • Postcard Geography: Online project (cyberbee.com) • Goofy Writing • Christmas Card Exchange/Thank You notes • BLOGS

13. Launch Cycle: Starting the Year • Authority List

14. Tim, Austin, Ashlyn Family Shells, Florida, Gulf Shores, sand Beach Century Social studies School

15. Map Out a Story

16. Free Write • Set the timer for 2 minutes and model writing about a topic. Keep writing, don’t worry about it being perfect. • After the time limit, see what you have. Group ideas together and make a plan for your writing. • Let’s try it.

17. This is the scariest thing you will ever see!

19. What do you do when you face a blank page? • Use your Authority List. • Use your Maps. • Use a graphic organizer to get your thoughts together. • Make a list.

20. What Can I Write?

21. Letters Emails Thank you note Story

22. Get Kids Pumped about Writing • Write everyday. • Let students choose topics, materials, or forms of writing. • Mini-Lesson Daily to model good writing. • Give students ownership by using 3-ring binder notebooks, composition notebooks, or other journals. • Share the writing with different audiences.

23. I Need Samples for Modeling

24. http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/#exp

25. Use Visuals to Stimulate Writing

26. Verbs: It’s What You Do • Drive • Race • Pass • Laugh • Steer • Turn • Concentrate

27. People Places Things

28. What do you see? What could you smell? Taste? Feel?

30. Patricia Polacco • http://www.patriciapolacco.com I would recommend that all new writers keep their stories concise and close to their hearts.

31. Kevin O’Malley • First you have to come up with a great idea. You have to let the idea float around in your head for awhile. Most good ideas will stay with you for a least a couple of days. When a new idea pops into my head I usually write it down in a note book. You never know when some bad ideas can be turned into good ones.  http://mywebpages.comcast.net/komalley/

32. Kate DiCamillo • Writing is seeing. It is paying attention. • Write • Rewrite • Read • Look • Listen • Believe in Yourself http://www.katedicamillo.com/index.html

33. Connecting Reading and Writing

34. Melissa Forney

35. Ralph Fletcher