I pulled a child-sized chair over to Zach and sat down next to him. "How's it going?" I asked. "Not good," was his reply. "What seems to be the trouble?" Zach explained that he was trying to add dialogue to his story, but his story was about falling asleep on the couch with his puppy,… Continue reading A Quick Little Conference About Choices
Category: conferring
How Do You Pull Away? Let Go of Their Hand
Letting go can be hard. Here are some thoughts on how to engage and disengage from the writer during the process of building independence.
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Confer with Students Via Google Hangout
Make use of Google Hangouts when you need to work with writers outside of writing workshop time. Here are five quick ways to use this FREE technology.
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Tips from Amanda Hartman, Conferring Guru
Amanda Hartman, author of One to One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers, offers tips for teachers on how to strengthen their writing conferences.
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ICYMI: A Wrap-Up of the Tailoring Our Teaching Blog Series
Our first blog series has come to an end. This post recaps the Tailoring Our Teaching Blog Series. Also, we'd like to know what YOU would like to write about the next time we host a blog series on TWT.
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Tailoring Our Teaching: No Need to Wing It If You’ve Got Great Conferring Notes
Lucy Calkins, author of many books on teaching writing, often says that conferring is the heart of writing workshop. I once heard her say to a group of graduate students that she wished we called it “conferring workshop.” This way it would be clearer to everybody that it is the conferences that really make the… Continue reading Tailoring Our Teaching: No Need to Wing It If You’ve Got Great Conferring Notes
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Coaching Conferences in the Writing Workshop
It’s January, at the top of a mountain in Vermont. Ten six and seven year olds are lined up on the side of a ski trail. Their skis all pointing toward me, ready for me to guide them down the mountain. “All right everyone, HOT CHOCOLATE!” I shout. Kristin, the tiniest one, in the front… Continue reading Coaching Conferences in the Writing Workshop
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Remember to Compliment
Take the time to compliment every child in every kind of conference you do.
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Teaching Toolkits: Making Instruction Visible
Anna Gratz Cockerille provides tips for organizing and developing teaching toolkits you can use across the school year.
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Conferring
What do you find most difficult when it comes to conferring? I'd love to know your responses! Click here to read mine.
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Using Evernote to Confer with Writers
Today's guest blog post by Cathy Mere will help you jump on the electronic record-keeping bandwagon. Learn how to use Evernote to keep conferring notes on all of your students.
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Conferring Notes Go High Tech
There are a variety of record-keeping apps, which make it possible to monitor your students' writing progress. Confer, DailyNotes, Evernote, and Notability are four popular apps that promise to make it easier, dare-I-say a pleasure to maintain meaningful conferring notes on all of your students. Have you made use of any of these apps in… Continue reading Conferring Notes Go High Tech
