Studying mentor—or model—texts with your students is the most effective way of teaching the craft of writing to your students, in every grade K-12. The ways that students see more experienced writers craft their writing in these texts soon become the ways that students craft their own...
Three, 75-minute webinar sessions from 5:30pm–6:45pm Eastern Standard Time. Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Tuesday, October 20, 2020 Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Please note that these webinars are recorded and made available to all participants within two business days of each live session. Overview: In Individualize Writing...
Overview This virtual workshop will help you understand key conferring concepts, as well as acquire the strategies you'll need to confer effectively with your students, and is based on Carl's books, A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences and How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student...
Individual conferences are the most important teaching we do with student readers and writers. Though there are separate books and resources about both, they are rarely talked about in the same conversation - yet most teachers who are doing one are also doing the other....
Overview This virtual workshop will help you understand key conferring concepts, as well as acquire the strategies you'll need to confer effectively with your students, and is based on Carl's books, A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences and How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student...
I'll be doing two workshops: Mentor Texts Make Writing Conferences Worlds More Potent–and Easier to Lead! (K-2) Teach Powerfully with Mentor Texts in Minilessons and Small Groups (3-8)
To drive your writers’ growth, learn the how-tos of a proven, powerhouse teaching tool: mentor texts. In this three day series (March 21, 28, April 4) , you’ll learn how to use published texts to mentor students in the moves and thinking of seasoned writers....