Essentials-What+Writers+Need

=// ﻿The Writing Workshop: What Writers Need //=

 ﻿ Time
Sustained effort and craftsmanship are essential in writing well,. . . Our society allows little time for sustained effort (Calkins 1986).

Predictable Structures
I have finally realized that the most creative environments in our society are not the kaleidoscopic envioronments in which everything is always changing and complex. They are, instead, the predictable and consistent ones: the scholar's library, the researcher's laboratory, the artist's studio. Each of these environments is deliberately kept predictable and simple because the work at hand and the changiong interactions around that work are so unpredictable and complex (Calkins 1983).


 * Workshop Structure
 * Writing Every Day

Ownership
In the writing workshop, moments of personal connection are the matrix out of which everything else develops. Children write about what is alive and vital and real for them--their writing becomes the curriculum (Calkins 1986).