Units+of+Study

Units of Study
"There are ways in which planning for the writing workshop should look very much like traditional planning. Namely, we need to know wat it is we are "working on" with students at any given time in the workshop. While they are working on many diferent kinds of projects independently, we need //units of study// that surround that work where our focus lessons over a period of time work together to build big, important understandings about writing. Without units of study, our focus lessons become a hit-and-miss series of bits of teaching, isolated sound bites that don't come together into larger, more lasting understandings" (Ray & Laminack, pg 130, Writing Workshop).