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The Writing and Reading Workshop, developed at Columbia University, is an approach designed to focus on the practice of reading and writing in the classroom, and can be used in both primary and secondary school. Transform classrooms into workshops where, thanks to the teacher’s advice and constant practice, pupils learn to apply the best strategies to grow as writers in an engaging way. In a rigorous but flexible framework and from a workshop perspective, students experience the possibility of writing authentic texts by focusing on their personality and their interests.
Autobiographical Texts With The WRW Method
Writing about oneself means comparing oneself, recognizing oneself, questioning oneself, and opening oneself to different points of view.
It’s about putting your life into words so that it becomes meaningful.
Autobiographical Texts With The WRW Method is a tool that sits halfway between the theoretical text We become writers and school anthologies. It is designed to accompany the teacher for the entire programme of lower secondary school, offering the possibility of adapting it to different classes, thanks to differentiated model texts, writing strategies and themes.
Structure of the volume
After the introductory chapters, dedicated to the presentation of the methodological approach, the volume proposes 18 guided mini-lessons which accompany the students in the reading and analysis of some passages proposed as a model, from which to derive the essential characteristics of the genre, as well as through all the phases of the autobiographical writing process: from planning to evaluation.
This volume is divided into two parts: the first is dedicated to the writing process and the second to evaluation.
The FIRST PART is divided into two units: Unit 1 corresponds to the so-called immersion phase.
During the immersion, the class is confronted with “mentor” texts that will be read wearing the “glasses” of the reader and writer. In this dedicated section, the texts proposed for the workshops were selected for their literary quality, functional for proposing reading strategies which are useful for enhancing textual understanding skills.
Unit 2 provides mini-lessons and materials for following each step of the writing process:
Each mini-lesson highlights a phase of the process, the objectives, the duration of the workshop and provides methodological suggestions for the teachers.
The SECOND PART of the volume contains Unit 3: dedicated both to self-assessment by the student and to evaluation. It contains proposals for self-evaluation, reflections, tools and practices for an evaluation that nourishes and makes writers grow.
In closing, you will find the glossary with the method’s key terms, a rich bibliography and the index of online resources, from which you can download all the materials, worksheets and passages analyzed in the book.
Leaf through some pages that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
THE AUTHORS
Silvia Pognante teaches literature in Montepulciano (SI). Always engaged in reading and writing education, she is the contact person for the Libridiclasse reading group, author of www.laboratoridiparole.com, and trainer on WRW. She collaborates with www.italianwritingteachers.it and numerous editorial projects.
Romina Ramazzotti teaches literature in Ancona. She is a trainer on digital and WRW issues, she collaborates on the italianwritingteachers.it website and on editorial and extracurricular projects.
