Energizing Writing Lives: A Digging Deeper Dialogue

Let's explore ways to energize your writing workshop! In this episode, we discuss strategies for revving up individual minilessons and units of study by opening up options, changing perspectives, bringing in magic, promoting collaboration, and creating authentic purposes for students to think about their audience. 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge -- Scroll down to Challenge #3 for more information.
• Collaborative Writing -- Discussed in this Conversation with a Colleague episode.
• A Pathway for Opinion Writing
• Mentor Texts for Navigating Second-Person Point of View
• Past Tip for Tomorrow Episodes:
  • Independent Writing Projects
  • Mid-Workshop Interruption
• Quote from Haim Ginott
• Some Narrative Writing Fun
• Some Summer Writing Motivation (Writing Contests)
• Thinking About Audience
• Three Ideas for Energizing Writing
• Writing as a Gift Center

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