Best-of-Smekens Writing Conference:
Writing Remix 2019
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Writer’s Workshop Management
SESSION 1
Execute the 4 Steps of a Dynamic Mini-Lesson
Plan the 4 essential steps
Identify the 4 steps of a mini-lesson
STEP 1: Puff Up the Pre-Write
STEP 2: Puff Up the Pre-Write
STEP 3: Puff Up the Pre-Write
STEP 4: Puff Up the Pre-Write
Use Think Aloud cards during mini-lessons.
Single Set | Set of 8 | Template
Stay on topic with titles
Demonstrate how to highlight and check each sentence against the title to verify it’s on topic.
Make lessons visible
Click on each lesson below for a video clip from Step 2. Watch how the trigger is introduced and connected to the writing skill.
SESSION 2
Confer with Writers Daily
Focus on the writer—not the writing
How’s it Going? by Carl Anderson |
Writing Conferences Grades K-8 by Carl Anderson
Conference Notes Templates
Categories PDF
Blank PDF | Word
Launching the Writer’s Workshop:
K-2 version | Grades 3-12
SESSION 3
Fit Writing into your Elementary Schedule
Integrate the writer’s workshop within the subject areas
Integrate the Writer’s Workshop within the subject area.
Introduce the mini-lesson
Transition quickly to Writing Time
SESSION 4
Foster Independent Writers
#1 What to do when you need help, and the teacher is busy
#2 What to do when you aren’t sure how to spell a word during Writing Time
Provide explicit procedures that help students problem-solve first-draft spelling issues. Plan to grow the list of strategies throughout the year.
#3 What to do when you think you’re done
SESSION 5
Craft Powerful eLearning Writing Tasks
Understand meta-analysis research results
Provide authentic, realistic experiences
Achieve the Core offers dozens of mini-assessments.
Offer skill practice in various modes and mediums
Account for feedback
Create simple videos to outline the one-sitting task and communicate it to the class.
Provide feedback to individuals. Like any writer conference, provide compliments and comments.