Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman warmly welcome you to experience writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop! Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works.

Through strategic routines, tips, advice, and resources, as well as short, focused video clips, new and veteran teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop in their K-6 classrooms where:

• Both students and teachers are working authors
• Students spend most of their time writing-not just learning about it
• Student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones
• Students are part of the formative assessment process, managing their own development
• Students will look forward to writing time-not dread it

Detailing everything from explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and minilessons about craft moves, this comprehensive book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.