Jennifer+M.

​ __**My Daughters' Treasures **__

Gluesticks, fingerprints page after page on my kitchen floor feathers, shells, pom poms sticking to the chair beautiful, art work young minds busy, creating pieces to please me where to store it? take a photo save forever my daughters' treasures

What do YOUR STUDENTS need to be writers?

modeling examples practice encouragement- take risks experiences mentor texts authors craft TIME relevant topics choice of topic and materials purpose/audience feedback

Relationship between motivation and Stamina

"Motivation gives birth to stamina." Lorraine Major & Jenn Melton

Know -choose our battles(one thing to focus on) -more than one teaching tools -use ?s in conferencing -need to meet with everyone -connections between pieces -hard to manage the time -really important -necessary -peer editing and self editingprecedes one on one -use different colors to edit different feedback -praise first- ask permission to address grammar"Do you want me to correct your spelling?" -students come for specific help -system in place- to avoid interuption-sign up white board- -ask for parent volunteers-editing skills if possible -each child gets immediate feedback from an adult(parent volunteer) -retired teachers, local college students
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 * KWL- Conferencing

Want to Know -how to train students' to conference well? -how does it look in 1st or second grade? -should we fix everything? -how long should a conference be? -is giving the same time to all -necessary?

Learn**

-**post-it notes in gradebook one page per student -clip board w/index card(really good stuff) -google documents**


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