Writing Instruction that Works

Posted by Jennifer Wagaman Jan 5, 2009

Many teachers struggle with how to help their students write better. Students need to be taught specific lessons on how to write, edit and revise, yet many teachers end up teaching haphazard lessons that may or may not be effective. Implementing a Writer's Workshop in your classroom is a great way to ensure that each student receives effective and appropriate instruction in writing.

Writer's Workshop is a method of teaching writing that splits the class time up in several different chunks of learning time. Learn each of the components of Writer's Workshop: Teaching Writing with Writers Workshop.

Teaching writing in this style will help you be able to effectively reach out to gifted students as well as those who may have disabilities without a lot of extra effort. This is because Writer's Workshop is a very individualized program. Find more information about this aspect of writers workshop: Benefits of Individualized Writing Instruction.

Two important lessons students learn through this type of writing program, is how to write for different viewpoints, and the purpose of revision in the writing process. These lessons are helpful in that they will naturally help your students improve their writing instruction over time. Find out more about these lessons and how Writer's Workshop works in the classroom: Lessons Taught through Writers Workshop.

Learn about more writing activities that you can do with your students in the classroom, as well as how to work with students who have writing disabilities.