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There are some great suggestions here. The third grade classroom teacher and myself (Lit. Coach) did a fishbowl demonstration for knee to knee conferencing for revision. After listening in on some conferences, I was pleased with how they did. I love the idea about then doing "side by side" for editing and the timing works for trying it tomorrow, but here is my question. How do you manage the peer conferencing? Our students are all in different places and need a peer conference for different reasons at different times. Short of the teacher in the room orchestrating who conferences with who or kids roaming around the room looking for someone they could interrupt or with the same need , Does anyone have a good way to manage this? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
I like to give each member of the conference a post-it note to write down open ended questions about the reader's piece. The BIG rule is that the reader cannot answer the questions outloud. Instead, they must answer the question IN their paper. Similar to the "I wonder..." questions from another post. The writer leaves with post-its full of open ended questions to help them elaborate. I find it to be very helpful.
HOWEVER, I do have a lot of trouble with peer editing in 6th grade.
I use a protocol sheet with my students. they follow a guide sheet that has them reading their story to the listener 2 times. The first time they are listening for when the movie in their head is really clear. They share this with their author. In effect it is the 'what they have done well part fo the conference'. The second reading the listener is noticing places where the movie stops, where there is confusion, and wonderings. This is all recorded and given to the author, who in turn takes the advice and revises for improvement. I would love to send you the forms I have made but I am not sure how to do that.
Make time for two types of peer conferencing during your Writer's Workshop. Knee to knee peer conferencing encourages good listening for content and clarity. Side by side peer conferencing encourages more technical editing and revision.
Make time for two types of peer conferencing during your Writer's Workshop. Knee to knee peer conferencing encourages good listening for content and clarity. Side by side peer conferencing encourages more technical editing and revision.
I use a protocol sheet with my students. they follow a guide sheet that has them reading their story to the listener 2 times. The first time they are listening for when the movie in their head is really clear. They share this with their author. In effect it is the 'what they have done well part fo the conference'. The second reading the listener is noticing places where the movie stops, where there is confusion, and wonderings. This is all recorded and given to the author, who in turn takes the advice and revises for improvement. I would love to send you the forms I have made but I am not sure how to do that.
I am teaching summer school to rising third graders and we just finished 2 days of peer conferencing. These kiddos need a little more structure/guidance on how to conference. I would love to have copies of your protocol sheet.
If you are willing, please send that to:cbaldinelli@wcpss.net
Thank you so much!
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