Table of Contents
Part I: Workshop Essentials
1. Learning How to Teach English
My Teaching Story
Finding a Balance
What About Reading?
2. Getting Ready
Making Time
The Room
Folders and Forms
3. Getting Started
The Daily Poem
Icebreaking
The Launch: Writing Workshop
The Launch: Reading Workshop
4. Essential Lessons for Writers
Procedures
Craft
Conventions
Spelling
5. Essential Lessons for Readers
Procedures
Practice
Literature
6. Responding to Writers
Writing Conference Guidelines
Red Flags and Responses
7. Responding to Readers and Reading
Reading Check-Ins
Letter-Essays About Literature
8. Valuing and Evaluating
Self-Assessment
Teacher Assessment
Part II: Genre Studies
A Word About Genres
9. Poetry
Free Verse: Build a Toolbox
Ideas That Matter
Some Forms
10. Memoirs
11. Short Fiction
12. Taking Care of Business
Reviews
Essays
Advocacy Journalism
Profiles
13. Humor and Homage
Appendices
A. Quotations to Inspire Writers, Readers, and Their Teachers
B. Student Writing Record
C. Student Reading Record
D. Individual Proofreading List
E. Editing Checksheet
F. Peer Writing Conference Record
G. Spelling Study Form
H. Thesauri for Writers Who Walk and Look Too Much
I. Editing Symbols
J. Ways Student Writers Can Go Public
K. Nancie's Workshop Cycle
L. Substitute Plans for Writing-Reading Workshop