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Product Identifiers

PublisherHeinemann

ISBN-10032500224X

ISBN-139780325002248

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038276075

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameHow's It Going? : a Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers

LanguageEnglish

SubjectStudy & Teaching, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Publication Year2000

TypeStudy Guide

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Education

AuthorCarl Anderson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight12.5 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN00-035059

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"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, "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, "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

Grade FromSecond Grade

Grade ToEighth Grade

Dewey Decimal372.62/3044

Table Of ContentContents: 1. Conferences Are Conversations 2. The Teacher's Role in the Conference 3. Teaching Students About Their Conference Role 4. Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Teaching Students to Learn from Authors 5. Laying the Groundwork for Conferences: Minilessons 6. Decisions, Decisions: Choreographing Conferences 7. "What Are All the Other Students Doing?" Classroom Management in the Writing Workshop Afterword: Getting Back to Conferring Basics

SynopsisHow's It Going? is a practical book. Written in a conversational style, it's filled with lots of useful advice., 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.

LC Classification NumberLB1576.A6159 2000