{"id":5965,"date":"2020-01-28T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:16:14","slug":"5-minute-writing-conferences-with-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/5-minute-writing-conferences-with-students\/","title":{"rendered":"5-Minute Writing Conferences with Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/images\/writers2.jpg\" width=\"447\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Working with an entire class of writers means setting up writing conferences to allow them to share their writing in a meaningful way that you can assess. It also allows you to provide feedback. This may also be used with adult writers you work with on their works.<\/p>\n<p>But how can that be accomplished in a timely manner? Here&#8217;s one idea.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Provide a writing rubric for the students to fill out prior to conferencing with you.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a reflection paper for the students to fill out prior to your conferencing.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-read their work and record your notes on a separate paper. ( I suggest using a copy of the rubric AND a checklist of other skills you want to observe in their work.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>OK, So this takes more that 5 minutes, BUT it sets up the writer to know and share information about themselves which will help guide the actual conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The actual conference is targeted at :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sitting down together<\/li>\n<li>looking over the paper as it relates to the rubric<\/li>\n<li>sharing the writer&#8217;s reflection<\/li>\n<li>discussing specific parts of the work and looking at suggestions to strengthen it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>True, you do not share reading the entire writing aloud (which is a great tool to discover flow issues and expose fabulous images, etc) but it&#8217;s a quick way to share views on the success of the writing in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>This tool would <strong>not<\/strong> be good to use on a huge project or on a final grading of work since it is one-step removed from hearing the writer read the work aloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,68,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-details-in-writing","category-editing","category-writing-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}