Writer's Workshop is a time set aside for the boys to do their own creative writing. We encourage boys to begin the year by writing about personal experiences. Later, many boys enjoy creating fictional stories, poetry, and other forms of written expression. In this writing process, we urge the boys to concentrate on ideas during the first draft. Invented or temporary spelling is acceptable.
Students often have many informal conferences with a teacher or peers as they work on drafts.
They self-edit their piece, then confer with a teacher for final editing. Boys make necessary corrections, then choose the format for an adult-typed published book. The authors then add illustrations to their publications. To aid the transition from invented to conventional spelling, new words are introduced weekly. The spelling words are drawn from a high frequency word list.