Starting the writing workshop: visualizing possibilities -- Finding ideas for personal narratives -- Drawing on a repertoire of strategies: writing with independence -- Writers use a storyteller's voice. they tell stories, not summaries -- Taking stock: pause to ask, "how am I doing" -- Editing as we go: making sure others can read our writing -- Rehearsing: storytelling and leads -- Writing discovery drafts -- Revising by studying what other authors have done -- Storytellers develop the heart of a story -- Paragraphing to support sequencing, dialogue, and elaboration -- Becoming one's own captain: starting a second piece, working with new independence -- Revision happens throughout the writing process -- Drafting: writing from inside a memory -- Revision: balancing kinds of details -- Commas and quotation marks: punctuating dialogue -- Writers revise in big, important ways -- Revising endings: learning from published writing -- Using editing checklists -- Publishing: a writing community celebrates.