"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
--Toni Morrison

Foreword

Across grades K-9, we have successfully implemented the second year of Writer's Workshop with the support of Directors, Administrators, Instructional Leaders and staff developers from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Our students engaged in six units of study, producing between 6-10 finished writing pieces within the major genres of the New Jersey State standards: Narrative, Informational, and Argument.

Within each school, the writing process and products were celebrated at the completion of those major units. Teachers nominated between 1-3 students who produced exemplary work or showed growth across the unit and these students were named Writers of the Unit. Their writing was publicly celebrated and honored. This anthology is a collection of our writers’ products, which reveals the success of the workshop model and the growth of our students. The writing featured in this anthology honors authentic student writing, errors included.

Foreword

Across grades K-9, we have successfully implemented the second year of Writer's Workshop with the support of Directors, Administrators, Instructional Leaders and staff developers from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Our students engaged in six units of study, producing between 6-10 finished writing pieces within the major genres of the New Jersey State standards: Narrative, Informational, and Argument.

Within each school, the writing process and products were celebrated at the completion of those major units. Teachers nominated between 1-3 students who produced exemplary work or showed growth across the unit and these students were named Writers of the Unit. Their writing was publicly celebrated and honored. This anthology is a collection of our writers’ products, which reveals the success of the workshop model and the growth of our students. The writing featured in this anthology honors authentic student writing, errors included.

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Dedication

We would like to thank our language arts teachers for implementing the workshop model into their classrooms, for attending professional development to enhance their practice, for enduring the productive struggle of a new program, and most of all, for teaching our students the Units of Study with fidelity.

Through formal observations and informal classroom visits, the administration have recorded evidence of your valiant efforts implementing the Writer's Workshop. The writer's notebooks in your classrooms show increased volume; the end-of-unit compositions reveal the craft in your lessons, and the on-demand writing assessments demonstrate the growth in our students’ written expression. Our students are lucky to have such passionate and committed professionals lighting their future paths. Your students will always remember you as the teacher that made them fall in love with writing, which is one of the best gifts of teaching.

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Yadier Batista, Wilentz

Isabella Cruz, Ceres