TABLE OF CONTENTS
WriteShop Teacher's Manual
Includes Lesson Plans for WriteShop I and WriteShop II

Introducing WriteShop

Recommended Activities.............................................................................. 13

Supplemental Activities................................................................................. 14

Lesson Plan Overview

WriteShop I: Fundamentals of Writing

Lesson 1a      Introducing WriteShop  Concrete Writing/Using a Thesaurus.....................  20       

Lesson 1b      Describing an Object  Concrete Writing/The Writing Process.....................  22

Lesson 2        Describing a Pet  Conciseness................................................................    26

Lesson 3        Describing a Person  Paired Adjectives/Editing........................................   30

Lesson 4        Describing a Circus Performer  Concrete Writing/Topic Sentences.........  32

Lesson 5        Describing a Food  Sensory Description.................................................     34

Lesson 6        Describing a Season  Similes/Limiting Narration......................................    36

Lesson 7        Describing a Place  Present Participles.................................................      38  

Lesson 8        Explaining a Process  Informative Writing/Sequencing.............................     40

Lesson 9        Writing a Factual Report  Informative Reports/Avoiding Plagiarism............    43

Lesson 10      Writing a Concise Biography Conciseness/Appositives/Adverb Phrases...  45

Lesson 11      Introducing Journalism  Writing a News Article......................................    47

Lesson 12      Writing a Narrative of an Emotional Event  Narratives/Prepositions.....  50

Lesson 13      Writing a Narrative of Another Person's Experience                                    

                            Conducting an Interview.........................................................................         53

Lesson 14      First-Person Point of View  Point of View/Personification.........................  55

Lesson 15      First-Person Point of View  Limited Omniscience/Tenses.........................  58

Lesson 16      Third-Person Point of View  Omniscience/Past Participles......................  60

Lesson 17      Describing an Object Reviewing Concreteness & Sentence Variations.......... 61       

Lesson 18      Describing a Place Reviewing Sensory Description & Sentence Variations….  63

Lesson 19      Writing a Short Report Outlining............................................................     66

Lesson 20      Exaggeration Descriptive/Informative & Descriptive/Persuasive.......................   68

Lesson 21      First-Person Point of View, Part 1  Descriptive/Narrative.........................  70

Lesson 22      First-Person Point of View, Part 2  Changing Points of View..................   72

Lesson 23      Narrative Voice First- and Third-Person Narrative........................................    74

Lesson 24      Persuasive Writing (Writing an Ad) Writing to Convince........................   77

Lesson 25      Opinion Essay Developing Points through Outlining/Parallelism.....................   79

Lesson 26      Letter to the Editor Developing Points through Outlining..............................    82

Lesson 27      Compare or Contrast Essay, Part 1 Venn Diagrams................................ 84

Lesson 28      Compare or Contrast Essay, Part 2 Venn Diagrams................................ 84

Lesson 29      Essays That Describe or Define Developing Points through Outlining…....  87

Lesson 30      Timed Essays Writing within a Time Limit.....................................................   88

Editing and Evaluating

Positive and Encouraging Comments....................................................................     105

Addressing Common Errors Lesson by Lesson..................................................     111

Common Problems of Mechanics............................................................................      131

Student Writing Samples............................................................................................       137

Skill Builder Keys.........................................................................................................       179

Pre-Writing and Lesson Activity Keys....................................................................       203

Appendix A: Handy References

"Here's Your Edited First Revision"

"Please File in Your Notebook"

Appendix B  Supplemental Activities

Purpose of Supplemental Activities..........................................................         B-1

When to Use Supplemental Activities.......................................................         B-1

Expanding WriteShop Assignments..........................................................        B-2

Writing Across the Curriculum....................................................................        B-4

Creative Compositions  Story Builders/Story Starters....................................       B-8

Creative Exercises  Round Robin/The "Writing Well".......................................       B-9

Creative Extensions  Bloom's Taxonomy/Writing across the Curriculum............     B-10

Characters....................................................................................................      B-12

Character Traits...........................................................................................      B-13

Settings.........................................................................................................      B-14

Problem/Situation/Incident..........................................................................      B-15

Essays That Persuade................................................................................      B-21

Essays That Describe or Define................................................................      B-22

Essays That Compare or Contrast............................................................      B-24

Writing the Final Draft..................................................................................     B-26

Presenting an Attractive Report.................................................................     B-27

Problem Solving Chart for Reports............................................................     B-28

 Appendix C  Checklists and Evaluation Sheets (All-Purpose)