Writer's Workshop Narrative Unit for Middle School - Google Resources BUNDLE

Writer's Workshop for Middle School Digital Resources Writing Process Unit - BUNDLE!

⭐(Items are listed in the recommended order for teaching lessons.)

Bundle Item #1:

A Google Slides writer's workshop resource for idea generating and free writing. This serves as both a basis for the workshop model as a way to practice routines around writing and also a great get-to-know-you activity.

Students will generate ideas for free writing using the various brainstorming pages.

• They will explore what they are experts on.
• They will map out meaningful places to them.
• They will build a web of memories tied to various emotions.
• They will examine themselves and what qualities they want to keep and what to let go of.
• They will examine their own priorities when it comes to wealth, happiness, etc...

⭐(The idea is that all of these brainstorms can serve an inspiration for future writing pieces.)

Bundle Item #2:

Daily Journal Writing Prompts - Self-Reflection - Google Slides Digital Journal- Bell Ringer

This writing journal is created on a Google Slides Deck.

Use as a Bell Ringer or or as a Writer's Workshop Free Writing Daily Journal!

• There are five sections included.
• Each section includes five days of writing prompts connected to that section's theme.
• The writing prompts are centered around personal growth and reflection.
• The main menu includes embedded links to each slide for easy navigation.
• Each writing journal slide include a slide to link to return to the main menu for easy navigation.

Daily Journal

Sections Include:

• Who Am I?
• My Goals and Fears
• My Relationships and Connections
• Society and Expectations
• Reflection and the Future

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Google Docs Resources For A Memoir Writing Assignment

This assignment provides students with the opportunity to write a meaningful narrative that goes beyond just sharing a memory. This writing piece guides students to a place of reflection on the importance of a moment and how that moment helps to define who they are and how they will be remembered.

Included is:

• A graphic organizer with built in thinking prompts and sentence starters
• A brainstorming template
• 6+1 Traits of Good Writing rubric
• Teacher model/mentor text to use throughout the writing process.

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Mini-Lesson: Revision Vivid Slow Motion Details to Apply To Student Writing

In these Google Slides, students will explore a technique for adding vivid details to their writing using slow-motion, inspired by Barry Lane. If you have never seen him narrate the moment milk is poured over a sister's head, you are in for a treat!

Included:

• Mini-Lesson and Model Slides with a Barry Lane video clip embedded.
• Built-in annotation and discussion opportunities as students examine the model clip.
• Two guided practice slides for creative writing practice.
• Application slide that encourages students to apply this slow-motion writing technique to their own writing.

⭐(After having students write their memoir, they can use this lesson to revise and improve their rich vivid detail. )

Bundle Item #5:

This Google Slides lesson and activity are designed to help students revise their own writing by modeling their style after the young adult authors we all love to read.

It includes:

• A list of stylistic choices to look for in the mentor sentences.
• A menu of mentor sentences/passages with embedded slide links to the passages from the following novels: Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon, UnSouled by Neil Shusterman, Boy 21 by Matthew Quick, and Copper Sun by Sharon Draper.
• Annotation slides to explore each passage and list the unique writing qualities that inspire us as writers.
• An independent task slide designed to guide students toward the revision of their own writing using the inspiration from the mentor sentences.

⭐(Have students go through their memoir writing assignment and look for places to revise their sentences to improve fluency and structure inspired by the mentor sentences. )

Bundle Item #6:

Writer's Workshop Conferring Quick Reference Guide for Teachers

Conferring with students is a seriously high leverage instructional strategy. No matter the age, having one-on-one conversations with students about their learning builds connections and bridges gaps in understanding. I attended the Saturday Reunion through Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. I was lucky enough to listen to a session by Lucy Calkins herself! I went back to school inspired and created this quick reference guide to keep next to me while conferring with students. It was a huge help! I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.

Bundle Item #7:

I created a digital poster to explain and summarize the 6 Traits of Writing and the holistic rubric. I have felt that my writing instruction and student work have improved greatly by using Education Northwest’s Trait of Writing.