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The Writing Workshop
The chapter discusses what a writers workshop will sound like, look like and feel like. At the moment I don't think we have enough days where students are ultimately in control of what they write about, how they want to write it and drive their own learning. Lyn Watts has given us great examples about kids using writers notebooks to begin ideas and choose what they would like to write about and allowing the students to decide whether their writing belongs in the 'junk drawer', or starts off as a gem and is polished into a 'jewel box' etc. I can't wait to give writers workshops a go! Flick often tells of how her kids have their free writing on Friday and they simply cannot wait to begin - I am excited to grow as a writing teacher and develop this love for writing as well.