Increasing Student Agency as Writers: A Digging Deeper Dialogue

You can grow your students’ agency in writing workshop by thinking deeply about the curriculum, growing your instruction, and nudging students toward self-assessment. 

Here are several Two Writing Teachers blog posts that deal with some of the topics discussed in this episode:

• Creating Clarity for Writers
• Different Ways to Use Checklists in Writing Workshop
• Increase the Number of Teachers in the Room with Student-Led Small Groups
• Intentional Practice in Our Writing Classrooms
• Six Ways to Make Charts More Student-Centered
• The Importance of Charts in Our Classrooms: Resetting Our Workshop Practices
• Making the Most Out of Charts: Maximizing Independent Writing Time
• The Power of Goal Setting
• The Power of Progression: Expanding the Reach with Small Group Work
• The Power of Silent Teachers: Helping Writers Increase Productivity and Build Independence Through Interdependence with Tools in the Classroom
• Three Ways to Introduce Personal Editing Checklists in Writing Workshop
• Writing Checklists: Tools for Independence and Goal-Setting

Additional Resources Mentioned:

• Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Writing by Melanie Meehan
• How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars (Cult of Pedagogy Podcast)

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