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=What would you do if the doorbell rang?=

//**Madeline Green, Martha Reyes, and Elizabeth Sanchez**//
Our group consists of Elizabeth Sanchez, Madeline Green, and Martha Reyes. We chose to work on Writer’s Workshop because it is very important for students to write and express their thoughts in a proper format. Although it is very challenging task, we have confidence we can put together a lesson plan that can keep the children focused and motivated. We also want the students to learn as well as to enjoy through the process of drawing creativity and their imagination.

The learning standards we are using are ELA standard two and standard four. Standard two relates to our lesson plan because we will read a book to the students and relate the texts to their own lives. In standard four, students will interact with each other and share their experiences. Therefore they will have a better understanding of other students views and responses of a text to self connections.

At the beginning it was very difficult to find and implement the Eric citations into our lesson plans. They became helpful because they gave us an idea of what was in a lesson plan and how to go about it. We then gathered all the information necessary to orchestrate our lesson plan.

The 6 websites were easier to work with. Our websites were very descriptive and had many options to choose from. They were of great knowledge, since we had no experience on writing a lesson plan. The whole workshop experience has been of great help because we have used technology to make our jobs as teachers smoother. The websites allow us to save time that we can dedicate to the student and make sure that we have accomplished our objectives of our lessons.

The last challenge was the web quest.This will definitely make us pros at putting together a lesson plan and web quest. Sometimes we take technology for granted and do not take full advantage of the information it has to offer us. This has been a lot of work, but well worth it. This work has made us stronger and wiser in making choices of different lesson plans that can be used in our classrooms.

__**Citations**__

1. Jasmine,Joanne & Weiner,Wendy(2007) The effects of Writing workshop on abilities of first grade students to become confident and independent writers.(Ej775798)

2. Hansen,Jane A.(2007) First Grade Writers Revisit their work (EJ753986)

3. Fisher,Katie(2003) If we can talk about it, we can write about it, if we can write about it, we can read about it. (EJ667681)

4. Szcezepanski, sue(2003) writing Workshop: Three ingredients that work. (EJ667682)


 * [[file:lp_writers_workshop.doc]]
 * [[file:questions_writers_workshop.doc]]
 * WebQuest
 * Links
 * 1) [|ReadWriteThink]This link gave us an example of a text to self-connection lesson plan. It is also a teachers resource to obtain lesson plans.
 * 2) [|Teachers.Net]jj Is a lesson plan bank. It gives teachers the opportunity to share their teaching ideas and lesson plans. Trough this website link you can search lessons, submit a lesson, browse lessons, and request a lesson.
 * 3) [|Educational Oasis]This website is a resource tool for teachers. It gave us another example of what a text to self-connection lesson plan should be.
 * 4) [|Making connections]Title: This link gave us an idea of how student use prior knowledge to understand what a text is.
 * 5) [|Comprehension Strategies]This website helped us with the writing process of our lesson plan.
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