Randall's Writer's Workshop Reflection

I really enjoyed reading about writer's workshop. To me, it has many important aspects that I believe will make many improvements on our future students' writing. Two of the components that I liked in particular were the mini lesson and the freedom to choose the topic. The mini lesson is a crucial element that aids the students to perfect their craft of writing. Rather than teaching things straight out of a book, the teacher can use the the activity period to find out certain errors that the students are making and then go over it with them in the following lesson. I think this also eliminates any alienation of the students and prevents any lowering of self-esteem when students are not called out in front of class for their mistakes. With the use of writer's workshop this is highly unlikely because the point is for students not to be afraid of writing, but to feel the freedom to write on topics of their choice.