The purpose of this session is to allow teachers to experience the writing process and writing conferences and to speculate on ways to incorporate these into classroom instruction. Using six different color index cards, teachers will write an extended paragraph. They will engage in planning, free writing and draft writing, stopping five times for a mini-writing conference with a partner. Through these experiences, teachers will learn conference skills and strategy instruction. The content of the session, which gives a basic overview of the writing process, is presented through overhead projection and peer editing.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting. The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate multiple ways in which peer response groups can be implemented into classrooms to produce content-rich writing. Using the LEAP 21 writing rubric's focus on content and style, participants will respond to their peers' writing using both oral and written methods. Moving beyond traditional editor's checklists, participants will consider main idea, details, sequence, tone, figurative language, vocabulary, and sentence variety as they respond to the various pieces of writing. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.