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Comprehensive Approach to Literacy - Video Resources for Writing Workshop

Videos that explore different aspects of Writing Workshop

SFUSD's Comprehensive Approach to Literacy
Writing Workshop - Minilesson
Introduction to Writing Workshop
Introduction to Writing Workshop
SFUSD Elementary Teachers on Special Assignment, Nikki Thornton Street and Lindsay Hatfield, present an introduction to Writing Workshop.  Presented at Bayview Ignite!, August 2017
Narrative
Revising - 6th Grade
Whole Class Instruction in Studying Author’s Craft and Intent: Reading a Mentor Text so Writers Learn Literary Technique (5-8) - Using mentor text to craft ending
Planning and rehearsing - 5th grade
Whole Class Instruction: Fantasy Writers Develop Setting (5-8)
Informative/Explanatory
Drafting/Revising - 2nd grade
A SFUSD teacher using mentor text to write introduction
Revising - 3rd-5th grade
Whole Class Instruction to Teach Students to Reread their Information Texts with an Eye Towards Logical Structure and then Use This to Guide Revisions (3-5)
Revising - Kindergarten - 2nd grade
Whole Class Instruction to Teach Students to Use Domain- Specific Vocabulary Within Information Writing (K-2)
Writing Minilesson - Kindergarten
In this video, Ms. Hartman uses the mentor text of a Kindergarten writer, modeled writing, and shared writing to teach kindergarten students about writing informational texts.  ​
Opinion
Revising - 5th grade
Teaching Students to Examine Craft Moves and Author's intent in Mentor Persuasive essay in order to Support Revision (5-8)
Planning - 3rd grade
Thinking of ideas to write about by thinking of problems you see in every day life and thinking of possible solutions

Writing Workshop - Conferring
Narrative
Revising - 5th grade
An Ensuing Conference: Providing Critical Feedback to Raise Standards (5-8)
Planning - Kindergarten
Providing and then Withholding Scaffolding to Support one Child’s Early Understanding of Narrative Structure so the Child can Write Events in Sequence (K-2)
Writing Conference - 5th Grade
In this video, Ms. Noonan from Think College Now School in Oakland, CA confers with a 5th grade student as she prepares to publish her work.  
Supporting Understanding of Narrative Structure
In this Teachers College and Writing Project video, Ms. Hartman talks with a student about telling a true story and models a strategy for telling the story across the pages so that it follows a sequence of events.  She also teaches him what to do when he is trying to think of a story to write, increasing his independence as a writer. (K-2)  ​​
Informative/Explanatory
Drafting & Revising/Conferring - 2nd grade
A SFUSD teacher, confers with student about using headers to help you plan what to write
Opinion
Planning & Rehearsing - 2nd-5th grade
A Writing Conference: Teaching a Student to Write for Audience (2-5)
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