I received an email from a teacher this week who wrote:

So once you’ve introduced students to the pattern of three in literature, and they come to you regularly pointing out the pattern in the books they’re reading, how do you help them to use this pattern in their own writing?

I…

In Writer’s Workshop, the teacher never hears these two dreaded words, because in WW, there is no such thing as being done. Why not?

During Writer’s Workshop students are, simultaneously, at different stages of the writing process. They might be:

•  Prewriting (talking,…