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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, they do writers workshop which I agree is absolutely ridiculous. But, for my kid, it really got him comfortable writing and he is very willing to write cards and letters because he practices writing every day (Even when he couldn't write out a single word and still struggled forming letters)[/quote]
Writer's workshop made my kid recalcitrant to any writing.  She's finally started being willing to write this year when the upper grade curriculum introduced scaffolding.  [/quote]

What types of scaffolding did the upper grades use?  And when you say upper, do you mean 2nd and 3rd or 7th and 8th?  When I taught first grade, I used the scaffold of providing possible opening sentences, closing sentences, and we did a lot of work on writing details and supporting sentences.  Most of my students could write very strong paragraphs.  I think different people use the term writer's workshop to mean different things.  In my writer's workshop, I did about 20% whole group instruction, 50% small group instruction and then about 30% of the time I co-taught or had other teachers in the room to work with kids individually on the exact skills they needed to move forward.  I suspect that writer's workshop isn't the problem...it's how it is implemented.  I'm a little OCD about my students' progress and every weekend I spend several hours looking at kids' work and figuring out exactly what they need the following week to keep growing.[/quote]

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