Writing+Clubs

**Writing Clubs** Every month throughout the school year, students select one notebook entry/story to publish. This means the story will be shared with members of a writing club in order to receive feedback from other authors in the classroom. When students are part of a writing club, they meet in groups of three or four to read their chosen stories aloud and help each other improve the stories before taking them into first-draft form. Students are placed into teacher-assigned writing clubs with a checklist of questions for the authors to ask of their club members after reading their stories aloud to their group. Students are able to give constructive feedback to their fellow authors to help them improve and revise the stories before putting them into first-draft form.

As the year goes on, students will continue to work with different students in ever-changing writing clubs to share and revise the writing they do in their notebooks. Students use the feedback they receive in their writing clubs to begin a first draft of the story they are taking out of their notebooks. The drafts are turned in to me, and I meet with each student to discuss and further revise the stories before they are published. Back to Writer's Notebook  Back to What does Writer's Workshop Look Like   Back to Writing