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

 

06.05.17 Conferring with Readers #TrinityLearns

Summer Literacy and Mathematics Professional Learning
June 5-9, 2017
Day 1: Making the Most of Conferring in Reading Workshop
Tiffany Coleman (@TColemanReads)

Today’s Agenda: Conferring Toolkits

  • Ice breaker: Compliment Conferences
    • Turn and Talk
    • Conferring Success
    • Compliment
  • Research, Decide, Compliment, Teach
    • Using Data to Determine Resources
    • Fountas and Pinnell
  • Conferring about Reading Volume & Engagement
  • Conferring about Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
  • Individual/Grade Level Goals for Conferring

Resources:

 

06.02.17 Summer PD #TrinityLearns

As part of our practice, we offer in-house summer professional learning around literacy and numeracy.

There are two strands that both focus on the workshop model and conferring with students in literacy and in math.  Tiffany Coleman (@TColemanReads)and Lisa Eickholdt (@LisaEickholdt) will each join us on June 5th and 6th, respectively, to further our work in conferring.  On June 7th, Marsha Harris (@MarshaMac74) will round out the literacy work with a session on differentiation.  Jill Gough (@jgough) and Becky Holden (@bholden86) will facilitate three days of interactive math learning so that it parallels the work in literacy.
Here’s the big picture view of the professional learning days:
 Our essential learnings are based on ALT’s goal for all faculty-learners:

06.03.16 Summer PD #TrinityLearns

As part of our practice, we offer in-house summer professional learning around literacy and numeracy.

Goals:

  • I can design reading and writing lessons using the structure of the mini-lesson.
  • I can nurture a community of learners with a growth mindset towards learning mathematics, where making thinking visible is safe, even when students make a mistake.

Dates:  June 6-9 (M-TH)

  • Reading: Tiffany Coleman
  • Writing:  Lisa Eickholdt
  • Math:  Jill Gough, Becky Holden, Kerry Coote
    • Monday:
      • Balanced Literacy
      • Structure of Workshop – Non-negotiable essentials
      • Standards for Mathematical Practices
    • Tuesday:
    • Wednesday
      • How to read a Unit of Study in Writing
      • Three-Act Tasks

3 Days of PD (3 90 min sessions)

Please bring:

  • Units of Study in Reading and Writing
  • Envision Math Book and Student Workbook