Hi Leslie, Only the kindergarten teachers and me do writers' workshop. In fact, I had more grade one students signing up for writing club than any other grade. Often teachers will say they don't have time to carve out 3 periods a week for writers' workshop - to me this would be a minimum. However, there is interest and I did a 3-session series after school in the spring for those teachers who were interested. My purpose in starting a writing club was initially selfish: I wanted to keep working with the kids I'd had in previous years and I wanted to expose other kids to the joy of a writing club modelled on writing workshop. I'm hoping that the kids will go back to their teachers and ask if they can do more writing and that this will have a snowball effect of sorts. We'll see. Elisa
Elisa Waingort Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual Dalhousie Elementary Calgary, Canada The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. —Helen Keller Visit my blog, A Teacher's Ruminations, and post a message. http://waingortgrade2spanishbilingual.blogspot.com/ Elisa Can you say a little more about your writing clubs, please? Does your school follow a writers workshop model? If so, will the writing clubs support the work that's going on in the classroom. Leslie
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