The authors of this book welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and short focused video clips, teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where both students and teachers are working authors; students spend most of their time writing-not just learning about it; student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones; students are part of the formative assessment process; students will look forward to writing time-not dread it. From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and mini-lessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.