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Help With Lucy's Writers Workshop

by mrs. r

Mar 30, 2009

I am looking for resources for Lucy C's Writer's Workshop. I teach second grade. I am really struggling with this. We went from a very structured program to this, and I am just having a hard time adjusting. If anybody has any sites with lessons, books to correlate with mini lessons, blogs, or ideas, I would so ever appreciate it.

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Melissa Thank you so much for offering to send us these files!! I almost feel like I can't wait until the 9th ;) Enjoy your trip! If anyone would like to send me the writing file before then, I would REALLY appreciate the files.

I just tried for the last 30 min. to create my own proteacher account. I even created a new email account just for prote...See More

Apr 4, 2009

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Mrs. R I have been trying to activate since Tuesday, have even tried to email them, I think something is up with their site. I am still waiting on my confirmation email.....

would love to have the files since I can't get into it if anybody can send them to me, [email removed]

Apr 4, 2009

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Teach in FL Our district started Lucy this year in K-2. We have a district writing person to support us.

I have a few Anchor Charts in MS Word if you are interested. I may also have other resources back in my room. You could email me if you like.

On 3/30/09, mrs. r wrote: > I am looking for resources for Lucy C's Writer's Workshop. > ...See More

Apr 4, 2009

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Teach Our school district uses Lucy Calkins. My school is not very excited about it. I call it "Loosy Goosey". I'd rather use a more structured program. Also, our district is trying to go with Standard Based Report Cards (yulk!). So I had my 3rd grade team work on matching Lucy's lessons and books with the standards. It doesn't work. We will have to add ...See MoreOur school district uses Lucy Calkins. My school is not very excited about it. I call it "Loosy Goosey". I'd rather use a more structured program. Also, our district is trying to go with Standard Based Report Cards (yulk!). So I had my 3rd grade team work on matching Lucy's lessons and books with the standards. It doesn't work. We will have to add curriculum to her lessons to meet the standards.

I got online and typed in writer's workshop for elementary and came up with this teacher's web site: (this is a second grade teacher)

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I also found this sight by a teacher: [link removed]

Our principal ordered some of the books Lucy used in her material for examples of lessons.

Good luck. I just need to change my attitude I guess. Our principal thinks Lucy is the god of writing but he never had to use it. He was trained in it and thinks he has all the answers . . . NOT. He wants us to go through all of the books in one year which is impossible. Besides we are using the 3-5 level kit and some of those books aren't applicable for 3rd grade. What a mess!

So, we're doing the best we can with what we've got. The only thing is he's convinced the parents that our school is in love with the program and that every grade is doing it which is far from the truth. Hang in there. Just make the program fit the way you teach.

On 4/04/09, Teach in FL wrote: > Our district started Lucy this year in K-2. We have a > district writing person to support us. > > I have a few Anchor Charts in MS Word if you are interested. > I may also have other resources back in my room. You could > email me if you like. > > On 3/30/09, mrs. r wrote: >> I am looking for resources for Lucy C's Writer's Workshop. >> I teach second grade. I am really struggling with this. We >> went from a very structured program to this, and I am just >> having a hard time adjusting. If anybody has any sites >> with lessons, books to correlate with mini lessons, blogs, >> or ideas, I would so ever appreciate it.

Apr 4, 2009

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Melissa Has anyone been able to download the Lucy Calkins lesson plans on ProTeacher? Here is the link:

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I would love to see the lesson plans, but protecher will not allow me to register. I am working on writing lesson plans today. If you have these files it would be great if you could send them to my email address, just cl...See More

Apr 10, 2009

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