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Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide

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I have taught writing for the past five years utilizing the teaching structure, writing workshop. I have also taught teachers how to teach using writing workshop and this has been the most helpful book in training new teachers. It is an easy read with lots of timelines, teacher guides, quick summaries at the end of chapters and practical advice. There are a lot of books out there about writing workshop, but this one is concise, clear and enjoyable to read. This is worth the money! Enjoy :)

This book does exactly what it says. It breaks writing workshop down into its essential components and provides the reader with the basic formats of writing worshop. It doesn't give you all of the answers, but at the end of each chapter it provides points for "making it work in the classroom" and an entire chapter on troubleshooting potential problems. If you want to implement writing workshop and want an easy-to-read guide that provides your with the basics of workshop, then this book is the perfect starting point.

Not bad but VERY basic. I'm going into my first year of teaching and I already knew everything that was in this book. I don't feel like I gained anything useful from it. It's essentially a basic outline of the components of writing workshop. If you google 'writing workshop' you will gain way more useful information and ideas for mini-lessons that you can actually put into practice in the classroom. I would only buy this book if you have absolutely no knowledge or experience whatsoever with this approach.

This is a great book to start understanding and using wiritng workshop. Came highly recommeneded and will be a great resource in the classroom!

I have spent lots of money on many writing workshop texts promising "the" approach to the WW. I should have saved around $120 and bought this book first.

Ralph does justice to a busy teacher looking for the core beliefs and structures to launch and sustain the WW. I read this book in two days and was ready to start my own WW the third day. He even provides the first day lesson, second day lesson, first week lessons, a WW's scope and sequence, tips on conference, assessment, and connection with reader's workshop.

This book along with Atwell's reading manifesto, "Reading Zone", are the two texts that structures my reading and writing workshop. I thank them for their clarity and emphasis on less if more.

This book is an excellent reference and guide for a teacher looking to implement a writing workshop in their class.

After taking a Writers Workshop course I needed a "nuts and bolts" book to lean on for daily help! Ralph Fletcher's book is perfect day to day support to a writers workshop program.

I am an English teacher who has used various incarnations of a writing workshop for around ten years. While the info in this book was ok for beginners, it offered me really no new or useful tips that I hadn't already used or read about in other sources.

The writing workshop model is clearly described and modeled. I loved this short but sweet book. There is an excellent bibliography of children's literature to use as a jumping off point for writer's workshop in you class.

This book delivers as it says it will. It is a fast, easy read. Great if you need to use it for quick professional development purposes.