ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to set up your classroom in preparation for teaching writing workshop. It lays out suggestions for classroom organisation and the resourcing of writing materials and children’s books. It also describes how to create a community of writers, prepare a writerly environment including working walls, and orientate your class in the first three weeks of the academic year. It makes suggestions on how to introduce children to personal writing notebooks and personal writing projects and how to conduct verbal feedback through pupil conferencing. Later, the chapter gives advice on how to discuss children’s rights and responsibilities as apprentice writers, how to design class and independent publishing houses, and finally how to choose a class charity which will give inspiration for writing during the academic year.
