1. Conferencing with Students (Session 2)
Created by
Alexandra McElwee
Graphics and Layout by Michelle Sekulich,
Curriculum and Assessment

2. Session #2
Conferencing With Writers

3. How was your conferencing experience?
Share in grade level teams about your conferencing experience.
What went well?
What was challenging?
What will you do next?

4. Sample Conference (Routman, Alexsandra-Grade 2, title 69, 4:30)
Things to look for:
Purpose
Compliment
Teaching Point
Goal Setting
Primary Conference from Regie Routman’s DVD
Ervin, 2nd grade. 1st, play video. Then play Regie’s Comments. Last, Discuss at table groups one aspect from the conference
As the video plays, choose 1 component to look for. Be ready to share what you noticed with your group.

5. Management Ideas
Establish a predictable, systematic conferencing schedule.
Organize with color coded writing folders.
Include goal setting & evaluation.
Teach parents to facilitate “mini-conferences.”
Teach students to hold peer conferences.
Take picture of goal cards, writing folders, schedule

6. Questions

7. Questions?? What do I teach during a writing conference?
How do I decide which students to conference with?
How does conferencing fit in with how I structure my classroom?
How do I decide which type of conference to conduct?

8. Resources Writing Essentials by Regie Routman
The Art of Teaching Writing by Lucy McCormick Calkins
How’s it Going? by Carl Anderson
Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide
by Ralph Fletcher & JoAnn Portalupi
The Conferring Handbook (from Primary Units of Study)
by Lucy Calkins, Amanda Hartman, Zoe White & Units of Study CoAuthors