Implications
•A shift in my instructional emphasis from drafting to revising and editing
•Modeling the questioning used in the conference to help students analyze material we read as a class
•A need to support students to set individual purposes for each piece of writing and an evaluation of rather or not they met that goal
•Early and ongoing practice analyzing author’s purpose during reading comprehension to support students ability to revise
Encouraging Effective Conferencing
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Immediate Changes in my Practice
•Incorporate a structural graphic organizer into revising process
•Model making structural revisions using graphic organizer
•Encourage students to think about how each paragraphs supports their main idea
•Make more connections between reading analysis and revising
