How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.623044
EAN: 9780325002248
ISBN: 032500224X
Label: Heinemann
Manufacturer: Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: February 21, 2000
Publisher: Heinemann
Studio: Heinemann

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Editorial Review:

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This is by far the best writing on the conference I have read. It is a book that is far superior to the other texts-including my own.
- Donald M. Murray

Our one-on-one talks with students during writing workshop offer us perfect opportunities to zero in on what each student needs as a writer. As Lead Staff Developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Carl Anderson has provided hundreds of teachers with the information and confidence they need to make these complex conferences an effective part of classroom practice. Finally, in How's It Going?, Anderson shares his expertise with the rest of us.

For Anderson, the key to a powerful writing conference lies in understanding that it is a conversation with a clear purpose and a predictable structure. This is the best lens through which to view the task of talking about writing. To that end, Anderson shows how we can take what we already know about having effective conversations and use that knowledge. Sample transcripts of conferences with elementary and middle school students in both urban and suburban settings walk us through the process step by step, providing new insight into how ambitious conferences unfold.

Above all, How's It Going? is a practical book. Written in a conversational style, it's filled with lots of useful advice, including an in-depth discussion of the teacher's role in conferences, strategies for teaching students to take an active role, ways to weave in literature, minilessons, classroom management strategies, and responses to the most frequently asked questions about conferring. Along the way, readers will learn new ways of thinking, develop effective techniques, and perfect straightforward strategies. At the same time, they'll grasp the art and logic of conferring, and with this learning in mind, discover for themselves how to confer well.




Rating: - The ESSENTIAL extra to Calkins kits & a writing workshop must-have!
If you teach 1-5th grade writing workshop, you NEED to read this book! Especially if (like many of us) you're using the Lucy Calkins writing kits. Mr. Anderson really breaks things down in a PRACTICAL way so you can feel confident sitting down with every single child you confer with. He also includes blacklines for forms that for me, have made the difference between confidence and exasperation! Way better than One on One by Calkins herself. !
Plus, he was in the project with her, so ... Read More

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Rating: - Writing Conversation
This book is excellent for teachers wanting to know more about how to have effective converstaions with their students during reading conferences. This will change how you approach conversations about writing with your students.

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Rating: - Not just for teachers
As a mother, I really want my child to learn to write so she can enjoy all the benefits that come through written expression. I found this book to be very practical and immensely readable, filled with examples and anecdotes that make the suggestions come alive. A parent could use this book as guidance for inspiring a child's interest in writing -- and in the process, might discover all kinds of things about what the child is thinking and feeling. If you don't read this book yourself, buy it ... Read More

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