Hacking the Writing Workshop: Redesign with Making in Mind

by Angela Stockman

Writing Workshop Is More Than Just Writing Agility matters. This is what Angela Stockman learned when she left the classroom over a decade ago to begin supporting young writers and their teachers in schools. What she learned transformed her practice and led to the publication of her primer on this Make 5 Teaching Strategies that Turn Writer’s Workshop Into a Maker Space . Now, Angela is back with more stories from the road and plenty of new thinking to share. Print Creates Barriers for Talented Writers As K-12 programs push for proficiency, the world continues to demand something different. Something more. "Writing is bigger than print today," Angela says. "When we diminish it, we diminish writers, too." Redesign with Making in Mind In Make Writing, Angela Stockman upended the traditional writing workshop by combining it with the popular ideas that drive the maker space. Now, she is expanding her concepts and strategies and breaking new ground in Hacking the Writing Workshop . In this easy-to-read-and-implement guide for all teachers of reading, writing, and making , Angela Ready to redesign your writer's workshop? Grab Hacking the Writing Workshop now and show your students that writing is bigger than print.

Genres: Professional Development

240 pages, Paperback

Published February 22, 2018

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some valuable practices, illustrated with examples and support documents.

Salient points:
- feedback early and feedback often. Warm and Cool feedback, compliments and criticism is unhelpful. Feedback is more like coaching.
- making can help shift the blocked writer.
- write in parts - small chunks. Use index cards and sticky notes.
- build community.

There’s a bit of vagueish global-style context building at the start; I found the more useful content from about the middle.

[n · Rating 2 out of 5]

Moderately useful. Reads mostly like a stereotypical education blog where all the posts link back to Teachers Pay Teachers, and that's actually kind of annoying. The resources that the QR codes lead to are mostly... not helpful? They're impractical and infuriating, and a lot of it isn't really geared for any age group at all.

That isn't to say there isn't anything useful, but it didn't feel any different than blog posts I've found that try to sell me things.

[Mandy Robek · Rating 5 out of 5]

A deeper dive into multimodal composition in writing workshop. Increased my excitement.

[Addie Healy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am so grateful to have stumbled across this book! It opened my mind to a more creative and multimodal approach to teaching writing in the 21st century. I am especially excited to bring making into my classroom to help my resistant writers. I think the strategies in this book will help them bridge the gap between their ideas and print and to, ultimately, engage more deeply in the writing process.

An awesome bonus included in this book is QR codes at the end of each chapter that link to Google Drive folders containing supplemental materials and activities.