Jigsaw+Group+Results-Writing+Instruction+Across+Grade+Levels


 * NOTE:** We will use your google docs collaborations from class 6 to create this page together. Be sure not to overwrite your peers' responses.


 * 1. What are you learning new about approaches to teaching writing and also writing workshop (especially in terms of how it is different than the one your cluster, grade level, department, or school employs now and/or the chapter that your faculty group read about)?**


 * //Modeling - showing what you're doing as a writer to your students, also using good models (providing models, published models to use with your students).//
 * //Thinking about where you are going to start developmentally in teaching writing is important.//


 * 2. How do the approaches to teaching writing and implementing writing workshop presented in the texts compare and contrast?**
 * //Teacher facilitates a collaborative piece that students work on together. This can serve as a bridge to students writing pieces on their own.//
 * //Importance of publishing (provides a sense of motivation and accomplishment)//
 * //Classroom set-up (what are the resources? how is the room set up? what things are in place that students may need?) Examples of Urbanski's class room set up: no teacher desk, students have areas set up where they can conference. Other things to consider: working folders, pencils, paper, place for publishing opportunities,//


 * 3. What questions do you have as a teacher who will be expected to implement one or more of these approaches and the related strategies associated with them?**


 * //How do you do both a writing workshop and a separate curriculum? Answers: Make a connection between what students are reading and what they are writing (can have a common purpose between the two), genre based reading/writing workshops, incorporate blocks of writing workshops into the quarter/semester (within a larger unit that is being taught), give student choice,//


 * 4. What questions might you have as a parent of a child who will be in these types of writing classrooms? How will you respond to these questions?**


 * //Add ideas here...//