My school became a Writer's Workshop school this year. We were trained by the staff developers at Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project.
Our students have made amazing progress this year. They have really bought into the idea of being writers. It doesn't hurt that we frequently tell them they are writers or that we have author's celebrations at the end of each month.
Part of what makes the curriculum so rich is the books we read and later re-read like writer's. (I wrote a lesson plan about how mentor text lessons tend to go: click here.)
Check it out --at the bottom of the page-- and add these books to your writing curriculum!
Here's a few of my favorite mentor texts too!
