Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop
No matter what grade you teach, what state your school is in, and what level of diversity is present in your classroom, students have the right to be shown real-world examples of the kinds of writing they're asked to produce. For Katie Wood Ray, this foundational idea is also the beginning of an important way of approaching rigorous writing instruction.\ In Study Driven Ray shows you that encouraging students to read closely can improve the effectiveness of your writing instruction. Detailing...
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No matter what grade you teach, what state your school is in, and what level of diversity is present in your classroom, students have the right to be shown real-world examples of the kinds of writing they're asked to produce. For Katie Wood Ray, this foundational idea is also the beginning of an important way of approaching rigorous writing instruction.In Study Driven Ray shows you that encouraging students to read closely can improve the effectiveness of your writing instruction. Detailing her own method for utilizing the popular mentor-texts approach, Ray helps you immerse children in a close study of published texts that supports their learning, leads them to a better understanding of the traits of good writing, and motivates them to become more accomplished writers. Ray shows you how to set up your writing workshop to facilitate close study. From grounded understandings to informed practice to supportive resources, she demonstrates: how to find a rich variety of texts that give students a clear vision of the writing you want them to do how to strategically select texts to support whole-class learning as well as individual choice how your teaching language gives structure to curriculum development and student learning how good planning turns curricular standards and objectives into sensible units of study why depth can be a more practical and effective curricular goal than breadth in writing instruction Study Driven also gives you the ideas and resources for thirty units of study, ranging from genres to punctuation and appropriate across grade levels.Get students into the habit of studying what they read to help them plan their writing. Give them examples of real-world texts as well as the structure, the space, the time, and the guidance to change and grow as writers. Give yourself Study Driven and find out how.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection 1Grounded Understandings11Two Snapshots of Studies in Action32Making a Case for Study223Before Revision, Vision: What Have You Read That Is Like What You're Trying to Write?354Understanding the Difference Between Mode and Genre535The World Is Full of Writing: Finding Texts for Teaching646Deciding What to Study from a World of Possibilities787Selecting Texts to Anchor Close Study95Section 2Informed Practice1078Setting the Stage1099Reading Immersion and Close Study12410Turning Talk into Text: The Language of Specific Curriculum14011Writing Under the Influence in All Phases of Study15112The Predictable Rhythm of Process Studies in Writing Workshop16413The Tension of Time, the Promise of Depth179Section 3Resource Sections187Introduction189Study PossibilitiesMemoir192Short Stories of Realistic Fiction196Historical Fiction199True Stories from History: Historical Narrative201Crafting Family Stories into Literature203Poetry205Journeys of Thought: The Essay209Features Articles and Literary Nonfiction215Practical How-to Writing220Informative How-to Writing222Advice Writing224Feature Articles Based on Interviews227Exploring Possibilities: List Articles230Biographical Sketches and Profiles232Editorials, Commentary, and All Things Op-ed235ABC Texts238Reviews239News Reporting243Photo Essay245Slice-of-Life Writing247Topical Writing251Survey of Different Kinds of Writing in the World253Multigenre Writing254How Writers Use Punctuation as a Crafting Tool255How Illustrations and Graphics Enhance Meaning257How Writers Make Paragraphing Decisions258How Writers Craft Texts in Interesting Ways260How to Craft Using Obvious Text Structures262The Work of Author's Notes in Texts265How Writers Decide on Titles267Appendix A269Works Cited271Index279
