Post on 06-May-2015
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The Secret to Powerful Teaching:
Tips and Strategies that Will Make a
Difference in Your Writing Conferring
Presented by Shana Frazin@sfrazintcrwp
shana@readingandwritingproject.com
Welcome! Let’s begin by chatting with someone who is
sitting near to you: Book, Movie, TV series, Game or App
recommendation
Topic you are currently in studying
Potty or sleep training?
Language?
Skill: cooking or carpentry?
Small moment story from your morning
Tip #1: You gotta get in the pool if you
want to swim In other words, in order to teach writing, you
need to do some writing.
Quick Write: Opinion, Narrative or Information based on your neighborly conversation
Tip #2: A conference is a dialogue, not a monologue
During a writing conference, writers say some things about…
WHAT HOW
Topic My piece is about…
Writing Process
I am… (collecting or developing or choosing or…)
Next Steps
Next, I am planning to…
Trouble I need some help with…
Tip #2.5: Teach Other Ways Writers Talk About Writing
Quantity
Quality
Identity (with evidence!)
Tip #3: There’s more than one way to get in the pool
In other words, Research, Decide, Teach is not the one and only structure for a writing conference Assessment conference
Compliment-only conference
Partner conference
Follow-up conference
Coming Soon… conference
Tip #4: Create examples with explanations
“Writers reach not for the ornate or the impressive word, but for the true word, the precise word.” ~Lucy Calkins
In my own writing:
1st try: I watched my mom as she combed her hair.
More precise try: I studied my mom as she lifted the blue plastic pick to her curls. Phft, phft, phft.
Abraham’s writing
1st try: I was so excited. I jumped up and down.
More precise try: Inside me was a tingle. I started to feel a little taller. Like a big brother. I made a fist, stretched my arm and tugged to my chest and said, “yea!!”
Tip #5: Talking about Writing is Writing
Work Some people say, “If you can’t speak it, you
can’t write it.”
Other people say, “Practice makes… permanent.”
I say, “Oral rehearsal is a powerful tool for creating community and for improving the quality of writing.”
Tip #6: Recruit Co-Teachers
(Including Your Very Own Students) There is a clear and powerful link between reading and writing that eludes some students. Capitalize on this link by showing kids how you and many other writers walk in the footsteps of the masters.
From Crow Call:
It’s morning, early, barely light, cold for November. At home, in the bed next to mine, Jessica, my older sister still sleeps. But my bed is empty.
My writing:
It’s evening, late, no sounds, save the whir of the AC unit. At home, in the room next to hers, Tami’s mom sleeps like a baby. But Tami is too angry for sleep.
Tip #7: Twitter! Just a few ah.mazing authors who are
available on twitter: Melissa Stewart
Seymour Simon
Jane Yolen
Lester Laminack
Cynthia Lord
Roy Peter Clark
And, many of your favorite TCRWP SDers!
Tip #8: Track Your Teaching
“Take only memories. Leave only footprints.” is good advice while hiking and conferring.
Give and take artifacts— TurboScan
Evernote
Old School: Post-Its
Tip #9: Fall in Love with… Revision
Revision is a disposition to be nurtured
Our first thought is rarely our best thought
Shout it out from the rooftops
Make “before and after” writing visible
Tip #10: Get happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM
How can we make our classroom feel like a room without a roof?