ASSIGNMENT SEVEN: Student Writing Conference - Choose
one or two children (classroom students, relatives, neighbors...) to
conduct an informal conference with. You may choose to use one of
Regie’s formats, your own or the one below, which I use in a conferring
notebook. You need to find a system that will work for you. Example 1
(and below) is the format I use for each writing conference that I hold
with students. Keep in mind that while you are conferring with students,
the majority of other students should be writing!
(Note:
If you aren’t currently teaching please find a school-age child to do a
conference with. We believe you will find it is worth the effort.)
Student Name: Date:
? (Question- Teacher asks)- “What are you
working on today in your writing?”
C (Compliment)- Compliment the student on one
strategy they are using well.
TP (Teaching Point)- What is one
strategy/point/goal you can teach this student to
move them forward?
FNT (For Next Time)- What needs to be a focus
during the next conference/what were set goals?
ASSIGNMENT
SEVEN: After completing your one or two conferences, please reflect on
how well they went and how they will impact your whole group, small
group and independent instruction in your classroom. Post your
reflective response to the blog.
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Student Name: Lila E. Date: 5/12/17
ReplyDelete? (Question- Teacher asks)- “What are you
working on today in your writing?”
L: Poems
Me: What is your poem about?
L: Firewood
Me: That makes me curious. Can you read it to me? I would love to hear it.
C (Compliment)- Compliment the student on one
strategy they are using well.
Me: I like how your poem tells a story. When you mention you wish you had your mule it told me as the reader that you must have really collected a lot of firewood and it was heavy.
TP (Teaching Point)- What is one
strategy/point/goal you can teach this student to
move them forward?
Me: Can we go back over your poem and look at how we can add some more details? Like more description? Adjectives.
We read the poem together for a second time one sentence at a time looking for where we could add more detail and evidence to support that she collected a lot of firewood.
FNT (For Next Time)- What needs to be a focus
during the next conference/what were set goals?
Our agreed upon goal for next time was to not rush, reread her work after she was finished and see where she could add more details to support her main idea.
I feel the conference went well. She needed that added support and guidance to lengthen her poem. She is one to rush through things and not give her writing much thought. But the conference helped her to take a step back and hear her own written words, then add some adjectives to color the piece up a bit more. Later she shared her final piece to the class with pride. :)
Glad the conference went well. Her sharing with the class with pride is the most important piece.
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