UTSA College of Education and Human Development/Center for the Inquiry of Transformative Literacies/SAWP Link

San Antonio Writing Project (SAWP) Resources and Articles

• Getting Writing Workshop Started
• Genre Study
• Formulaic Writing Instruction in a Test-Driven World
• Writing Workshop Talking Points
• I Teach Readers and Writers, Not Reading and Writing
• Uncertainty is Okay
• The Silent Hero: Routines and Procedures
• A View From the Classroom: Month One
• The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher
• Notebooking Focus
• Literary-Narrative Essay
• Expository Essay
• Persuasive Essay
• Possible Workshop Weekly Schedule

Write for Texas

• Using Reading and Writing to Support Learning
• Guidelines for Modeling and Thinking Aloud
• Teaching Personal Narrative Texts
• Teaching Expository and Persuasive Texts
• Writers Exploring Curiosity and Explanation: Generating Deep Ideas by Jeff Anderson
• Teaching Revising and Editing Skills
• Teaching Sentence Skills
• The Lens of a Writer
• The Lens of a Peer (Peer Conferencing)
• The Lens of an Instructor
• Revision Guides for Expository, Persuasive, Narrative, and Literary Writing
• Reading Like a Writer
• 7 Keys to Effective Feedback
• Write for Texas Link

National Writing Project (NWP)

• College-Ready Writers Program (C3WP)
• NWP Teacher Resources

Technology

• Sample Digital Interactive Notebook

Research

• Effective Writing Instruction for All Students -  Steven Graham, Vanderbilt University
• Effective Writing Instruction - Steven Graham Video
• Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading

Additional Resources

• Three Teachers Talk: Readers and Writers Workshop