Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Week 1	Teaching Points: Writers learn where and how to sit on the carpet during instruction. Writers talk about why writers write - for an audience and with a purpose.	Teaching Point: Writers begin to think of themselves as authors and think of their lives as full of stories to tell.	Teaching Point: Writers learn that the writer’s workshop happens every day and always includes a mini-lesson, writing time, conferencing, and sharing.	Teaching Point: Writers think of themselves as authors and continue to build stories that come from their own experiences.	Teaching Point: Writers learn how and where to store their work folders, where to find resources in the room, and take a tour of the writing center.
Week 2	Teaching Point: Writers plan their writing by thinking about their story like a movie in their mind before they write.	Teaching Point: Writers learn how to move from activity to activity and place to place within the workshop.	Teaching Point: Writers learn that illustrations should fill the page and add details to their stories.	Teaching Point: Writers learn to tell their story to a partner (turn and talk, knee to knee, eyes on me) in order to be better authors.	Teaching Point: Writers learn to use nouns to label their illustrations.
Week 3	Teaching Point: Writers learn what a detail is and how to add details to their stories.	Teaching Point: Writers learn how to sit, listening with eyes and ears on the speaker, hands to themselves.	Teaching Point: Writers learn about sentence structure - spaces between words, capitals, and periods.	Teaching Point: Writers learn what to do when they finish a piece - start a new piece, peer editing, add to words/pictures, final copy.	Teaching Point: Writers will learn ways to improve their writing - strong verbs, adjectives, voice.
Week 4	Teaching Point: Mentor Texts - Students go back and revisit any modeled texts.	Teaching Point: Mentor Texts - Students go back and revisit any modeled texts.	Teaching Point: Mentor Texts - Students go back and revisit any modeled texts.	Teaching Point: Writers finish pieces and “publish” them by reading to their partner.	Class Author Celebration!
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