Unit of Study: Setting Up Writer’s Workshop
Grade: K
Title: Unit 1 Set up writers workshop
Length of Study: 3 weeks
Genre Description: How to set up writers workshop?
Priority Standards:
Supporting Standards:
Essential Questions:
Mini Lesson Concepts/Topics
Resources
Mentor Text
Routines and Procedure
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Introduction of materials
 Writers notebook
 Where can you find it
 When can you get it
 How do care for it
Using tools independently
Introduction to crayons, markers
Colored pencils
How do we use them
Where do they live
Pencil grip
Clean up
Where do your tools go
Putting your books away
Where does writers workshop
end
Writers workshop format
Mini lesson/whole group
Work Period
Closing
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Mini lessons
Where do we meet
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http://www.jmeacham.com/writing.mini.
lessons.htm notebooks; Growing up
writing pg. 44, 48
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A house for a Hermit crab by Eric Carle
Sunflower house by Eve Bunting
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writing tools; Growing up
writing pg. 50 Lucy Calkins Launching the
writing workshop pg 19
http://www.jmeacham.com/writing.mini.
I am a pencil by Linda Hyward
Harold the purple crayon by Crocket Johnson
The Crayon box that Talked by Shane Deralf
Katie Wood Ray packet pg. 12;
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notebooks
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A house for a Hermit crab by Eric Carle
Growing up writing pg. 46; Lucy Calkins
Launching the writers workshop pg 1
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Establishing routines
Writers advantage week 5 day
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Magic Carpet by Pat Brisson
Emma’s Rug by Allan Say
Unit of Study: Setting Up Writer’s Workshop
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Expectations
Audience Etiquette
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Writing /work period)
Conferencing
Expectations
Who to ask for help
Noise level
Partner etiquette
Table talk
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Authors chair/Closing
Location
Expectations
How often will share
Who will share
Author etiquette
Audience Etiquette
How to share story
Reading not telling
Use of technology to present
(doc camera)
Transitions
How do we get from one place
To another
Signals
24,25 (S-drive);
Howard B. Wiggle bottom by Howard Binkow
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establishing routines
Growing up writing pg 51,58; Writers
Advantage week 5 day 23
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Too much noise by Ann McGovern
Noisy Neighbors by Nicola Moon
Diary of a Spider, Worm, by Doreen Cronin
Diary of a wombat by Jackie French
Look Look by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Can I help by Marilyn Janovitz
Writers advantage day 12,13, week 5 day
24,25 (S-drive);
Lucy Calkins
Launching the writing workshop pg. 115
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Publishing, sharing and presenting
Growing up writing pg 52, 53,57;
About the Author
Katie Wood Ray pg 14-17
LTE for technology or personalized lead
Educator
Lucy Calkins Nuts and bolts of teaching writing
Growing up writing pg 52
The stories Julian tells by Ann Cameron
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Mud by Mary Lyn Ray
The Great Gracie chase by Cynthia Rylant
Going about the business of
writing
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Thinking of ourselves as writers
Writers advantage day 2; Lucy Calkins
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We write everyday
lesson 2 Launching the writing workshop pg. 11;Arthur Writes a Story by Marc Brown
Reading mentor text
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If you were a writer by Joan Lowery Nixon
Sharing our work
. authors and illustrators
What do Authors do by Eileen Christelow
Asking for help
What do writers look like
Finding our stories
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Personal experiences
Author Illustrator; Writers advantage week 1 Tell me a story, Mamma by Akimi Gibson
Every one has a story
Aunt Isabel Tells a good one By Kate Duke
Borrowing ideas
Treasures of the heart by Alice Ann Miller
Unit of Study: Setting Up Writer’s Workshop
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Generating topics
Specific ideas we can write
about
Growing up writing pg 100; Using picture
books to teach writing Ruth Culham & Raymon
d Coutu
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ideas
I can write by Theo LeSieg
When I was Little by Jamie Lee Curtis
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Personal Narrative stories by various authors
Telling stories with illustrations
Lucy Calkins Launching the writing
My little island by Frane Lessac
Using pictures not words
Workshop pg 27;writers advantage week
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Wordless picture books
2 & 4 day 7,9,10,19
Books by Donald Crews’ and Richard Scarry
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Katie’s Picture Show by James Mayhew
authors and illustrators and detailed illustrationshttp://www.jmeacham.com/writing.mini.
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Working with words
Every letter has a sound
Letters make words
Initial sounds
Stretching words
http://www.jmeacham.com/writing.mini.
conventionsLucy Calkins Launching writing
workshop pg 51,57,65; Writers advantage
week 2 day 8 growing up writing pg 74,75;
Lucy Calkins Launching writing workshop
pg 73
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Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Jr. Martin
The Alphebet Keeper by Mary Murphy
C is for Colorado by Katy Jo Wargin
Shiver me Letters by June Sobel
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Writing resources
ABC chart/word walls
Introduction
Where can I find it
How do I use it
http://www.jmeacham.com/writing.mini.
conventions; growing up writing pg 74,75;
Lucy Calkins Launching
writing workshop pg 73; Writers advantage
week 6 day 27
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The Alphebet Keeper by Mary Murphy
The alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni
Alphabet Mystrey by Audrey Wood
Using pictures and word(Matching text/oral to picture)
Choosing a piece to share
How do I know my piece is
Finished
 Teacher choice/Student choice
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Maxes Words by Kate Banks
The Boy who loved words by Ronni Schotter
http://www.jmeacham.com/writing.mini.
Labeling, editing
http://www.jmeacham.com/writing.mini.
Once upon a picture by Sally Swain
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes By Ann Morris
A pair of Socks by Stuart Murphy
Lucy Calkins Launching writing workshop
Pg. 115 Writers advantage week 6 day 30
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Sharing and presenting
Katie Wood Ray Writing right from the start
packet pg. 12
Little Monster become an Author by Rozanne
Lanczak Williams
The Author with the fancy purple pen by
Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Unit of Study: Setting Up Writer’s Workshop
Unassisted writing suggestions: simple drawing/writing of something they like to get a baseline for where they are at
Common Formative Assessment Tasks: Checks for Understanding
 Collect and keep drawing or writing piece for base line
 Use suggested basic skills checklist to help guide instruction for the remainder of the setting up unit