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Unit Overview
​To launch your writing workshop, we suggest you begin the first three weeks of school  with oral storytelling and drawing stories.  The resource Talking, Drawing, and Writing by Mary Ellen Giacobbe and Martha Horn has some excellent suggestions for beginning this with your kindergarten class.  This resource also has some wonderful suggestions for teaching students to draw important parts of their personal stories.   These lessons can be taught before using the resource Launching the Writing Workshop (Unit 1) or integrated within the sessions of this resource.  Either way, it is crucial to set the foundation for writing by explicitly teaching and engaging students in telling and drawing their own personal stories and knowledge. 

The following overview will support you in using  Talking, Drawing, and Writing to launch your kindergarten writing workshop.  Check back for the unit overview of the resource Launching the Writing Workshop by Calkins and Hartman.
Unit Overview: Launching the Writing Workshop: Part I
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Unit Overview: Launching the Writing Workshop - PART 2
Unit Overview: Launching the Writing Workshop: Part 2
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The following resources are intended to support your use of Talking, Drawing, and Writing to launch your kindergarten writing workshop.
Oral Storytelling and Drawing Stories
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Writing Words
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Introducing Booklets
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Developing Kindergarten Writers
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