As you make up workshop sheets to help students with peer review, think about building complexity into your workshops slowly over the first unit. As Steve explains, less prepared readers and writers often cannot deal comfortably with the same kinds of workshop prompts that more sophisticated writers can. So you might want to have more prompts that call for students to label elements of papers on the first workshop sheets. As students gain confidence, they will be better able to identify strengths and weaknesses in peer's papers and, eventually, to suggest specific kinds of revisions for their peers.
