Launching Teacher College Writing Workshop? Unsure of where to begin? These slides will provide you with an excellent starting point. They are extremely engaging, interactive, and thoroughly involve all the most important steps in launching your writing workshop. Many ideas and language was taken from Lucy Calkins' Writing Units of Study. This was geared towards a 4th grade classroom but involves 3rd and 5th grade lessons as well. This includes preliminary launching slides as well as how to star