I have a secret to confess...
The past two weeks, Writing Workshop has been TANKING in my classroom. I know. Just a few weeks ago, I was like Miss Writing Workshop, exclaiming how amazing it is to anyone and everyone! What changed? Well, I started having the kids work on an expository, and at first it was going fine. Now, though, as kids are finishing, I am noticing a lot of students have TOTALLY forgotten the whole, "finish a piece, work on something else!" rule. No matter how many times both before, during, and after the lesson I say it. Yikes. It is making me CRAZY!
Good news is though that the expository is almost finished, and most are not half bad from what I gather. Good first writing project, but I am READY to wrap it up. In fact, we're not even publishing them (i.e. typing, cover, etc.). I'm just having the kiddos turn them in so I can slap a grade based on paper structure and support on them just in time for the end of the trimester. And it's about time too--I miss LOVING writing workshop!!! I think my kiddos and I both need a reminder of why we were so in love with writing that first month of school. This calls for some fun Ideas lessons and a few weeks of Free Choice in Writing Workshop...
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