Students practice many skills in one simple format:
•	Organizing their thoughts with pre-writing exercises
•	Reading their work out loud
•	Listening to their peers in an engaged and respectful way
•	Giving articulate, respectful, and helpful feedback to their peers
•	Developing focus and concentration on a task
•	Letting their creative ideas flourish
•	Exciting collaborative engagement with other students 
•	Learning elements of novel plot structure

I've taught writing workshops for children and teens since 1992.  This type of workshop format is tried and true. It allows students a bit of guidance, if they need it, but gives them a maximal creative freedom--the perfect blend for imaginative kids. I consistently see student's writing improve over the course of the workshop, as well as their ability to focus. 

In this workshop learners are motivated with all the freedom they have to work and create exciting stories.  When writing time is fun time--as it is in this class--grammar problems shake out of sentences until the learner is writing fluid paragraphs they can read with confidence to others. 

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Students are keenly aware of their peer's reactions to their work. They know when everyone is listening breathlessly.  They know when everyone is excited about their writing. This kind of positive reinforcement of strong writing will encourage students to write at a more challenging level.
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Some of the stories used in exercises are old fairy tales which can sometimes be a bit gruesome. I will warn students ahead of time.