06.06.17 Conferring with Writers #TrinityLearns

Summer Literacy and Mathematics Professional Learning
June 5-9, 2017
Day 2: Making the Most of Conferring in Writing Workshop

Lisa Eickholdt (@LisaEickholdt)

The Writing Strategies Book- Jennifer Serravallo

Slide Presentation- Launch Unit Generating Ideas

Marsha’s Notes:

The heart of teaching is during the conference

YOU ARE THE BOSS OF YOUR OWN WRITING!

Complement Stems

  • I notice you…I see you’re the kind of writer who…
  • That’s important because….
  • Every time you write you can…and it will…

“What are you working on as a writer?” What have you learned in mini-lessons that you’re working on as a writer? Goal- follow the child’s lead!

 

When you’re done, you’ve just begun!

Use mentor texts and anchor charts so that your teaching will STICK! A compliment conference will validate their use of the teaching point.

Writing Pathways has all of the grade level writing samples. Copy them and put them in student writing folders. Spend 3 days immersing in the genre before you teach.

 

Open Genre Unit? Allow the kids to choose their own genre of writing for a few weeks. Ralph Fletcher- Joy Write

Idea Generating Strategies are great launch units at the beginning of the year

Resources for Anchor Charts

https://chartchums.wordpress.com/tag/charts/

 

Writing Conference with Harold and Amanda

 

Providing and then Withholding Scaffolding to Support one Child’s Early Understanding of Narrative Structure (K-2) from TC Reading and Writing Project on Vimeo.

Typically confer with 4 students per session

 

Teaching Moves During a Conference

Craft- how do you make your writing more interesting?

Process

Goals and Habits

 

Pg 30- Learning From Classmates- Eickholdt

Meaning/Focus

Structure                                          CUPCAKE

Elaboration/Details

Craft                                                 FROSTING/SPRINKLES

Conventions

Writing is like a cupcake…Frosting & sprinkles are craft and convention but meaning, structure, and elaboration is the cupcake

Touch and write across the pages…oral rehearsal is key

Step 1: Immersion (study the genre that you’ll be teaching, think, plan, sketch and label, write, reread and revise, reread and edit)- use mentor texts from old students

Before revision, vision!

Stop being a hunter of errors and look for the beauty of the content!

 

Carl Anderson- Assessing Writers

Don’t write the watermelon, write the seed- Calkins

Focus

  • Narrow the Timespan- seed- slice of time
  • Angling Writing- so what? Why are you writing this?- each page has an angle about one focus…My Sister is a Daredevil, My Brother is my Best Friend

Elaboration

  • Inside Story- tell me what you’re thinking and feeling/Flash forward and Flash back
  • Exploding Moment- the most volume of writing should be about the focus
  • Add in Talking, Thinking,  and Specific Body Actions- bring character to life by making them talk

Structure and Organization

  • Excluding extraneous events (impacts focus)
  • Including important events (impacts elaboration)
  • Planning

Timelines- Action and Reaction

Break writing into paragraphs using PATS:

  • Place
  • Action
  • Time
  • Speaker

 

Express Lane Editing– Video (Jeff Anderson)

Video Resources on Conferring

Conference with Joshua (from Mark Overmeyer: How Can I Support You?)

A Writing Conference: Teaching a Student to Write for Audience (3-5)

Assessment-Based Conferring to Raise the Level of Narrative Writing (3-5)

Conference with Bella (from Patrick Allen: What Are You Thinking? Conferring in Reader’s Workshop)

Research-Decide-Teach conference Reading

Coaching Conference Reading

 

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