Writer's+Workshop

Highview Elementary School Writer's Workshop: Re-alignment to NYS Common Core Standards Grades 3 & 4

Grade 3 Program Outline and Pacing

Grade 4 Program Outline and Pacing

Supplemental Resources [|Scholastic Writers Worshop] [|ReadWriteThink Classroom Resources]

These files were created in Summer 2008 for a curriculum project. Each unit includes a page of Teacher Notes and at least one rubric. Your feedback is most welcome, as well as any improvements you can suggest. These files are in Adobe Reader, but I can e-mail you the Word files if you would like to make any changes. e-mail Ginny

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We start the year with a baseline writing assessment. During the baseline assessment, the class creates a checklist of what good writers do that can be used as a preliminary editing checklist. During the Focus on Editing unit, the students get a more in-depth editing checklist that can be used or modified as you will.

**Launching the Writer's Workshop - September** This unit can precede or parallel GHGR Unit 1: //Great Readers See Themselves as Readers//

The DRA will be administered in October, so you have time to get your workshop routines in place. This will also give you some good artifacts for the first Report Card Conference.

**Focus on Editing - September/October**

**Craft Unit** The students will learn to craft vivid verbs and awesome adjectives. Hopefully, they will use what they learn in this unit when they write their personal narratives or original fiction stories.

**Personal Narrative Unit**

This unit may be a good one to do with GHGR Unit 4: Good Readers Understand How Stories Work. There isn't a formal story writing unit, it may be interesting to see what the kids can do after completing unit 4 (and do the personal narrative later).