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Beacon Brazil G6KG WW Session #2 (April 2023)

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Fantastic book about how K kids are already writing.

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From the very first chapter of this informative and inspiring book, a clear picture emerges of how even three- and four-year-olds' capacities for serious authorship can and should be supported.

Coauthor of Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years

By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express-they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher like you to recognize the writer at work within them. All you need to help them is Already Ready.

Taking an exciting, new approach to working with our youngest students, Already Ready shows you how, by respecting children as writers, engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover guide you through fundamental concepts of early writing. Providing numerous, helpful examples of early writing-complete with transcriptions-they demonstrate how to:

make sense of children's writing and interpret how they represent sounds, ideas, and images

see important developmental signs in writers that you can use to help them grow further

recognize the thinking young children engage in and discover that it's the same thinking more experienced writers use to craft purposeful, thoughtful pieces.

Then Ray and Glover show you how little ones can develop powerful understandings about:

texts and their characteristics

the writing process

what it means to be a writer.

You'll learn how to support your writers' quest to make meaning, as they grow their abilities and refine their thinking about writing through teaching strategies such as:

reading aloud

working side by side with writers

sharing children's writing.

Writing is just one part of a busy early childhood classroom, but even in little doses, a nurturing approach can work wonders and help children connect the natural writer inside them to a life of expressing themselves on paper. Find that approach, share it with your students, and you'll discover that you don't have to get students ready to write-they're Already Ready.

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From the very first chapter of this informative and inspiring book, a clear picture emerges of how even three- and four-year-olds' capacities for serious authorship can and should be supported. Coauthor of Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers.

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Use this planner for Shared or Interactive writing mini lessons

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G6 Beacon Unpacking & Adapting Information Unit

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Beacon Brazil Y1 WW Session #2 (April 2023)

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Literacy Consultants & Consulting Services | Erin Kent Consulting

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Literacy Consultants & Consulting Services | Erin Kent Consulting

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EKC provides literacy consultants, consulting services, and literacy professional learning for schools.

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M.Ed. - Character Education

Post-Grad. Cert. - Early Literacy Development

25+ years PK-G2 classroom teacher

Literacy Coach, Mentor Program Coordinator

Finds joy in: word study, creating caring classrooms, reigniting teacher’s joy, eating ice cream, swimming and travel

miles@erinkentconsulting.com

linkedin.com/in/milesmadison/

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How do WE DO shared and interactive writing in WW?

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How do WE DO shared and interactive writing in WW?

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Key Slides and Examples

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Use the + symbol in this column to share an action artifact following Session 1. This can be a lesson plan, photo or written summary of an interactive writing or shared writing experience with your class.

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Teaching the Qualities of Good Writing Through Illustration Study

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AIS Chennai K-3 Planning with Multilinguals in Mind RW Workshop- Session 4 (5)

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AIS Chennai K-3 Planning with Multilinguals in Mind RW Workshop- Session 4 (6)

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AIS Chennai K-3 Planning with Multilinguals in Mind RW Workshop- Session 4 (7)

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Interactive Writing Planning Template AISC K-3

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AIS Chennai K-3 Planning with Multilinguals in Mind RW Workshop- Session 4 (8)

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Beacon Brazil G6KG WW Session #2 (April 2023) (1)

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GOT: What will you carry with you? What was a takeaway?

WANT: What are you wondering? What would you like to dig into in upcoming sessions?

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I believe that the potential children showed and their engagement in the Workshop were a great surprise!
The idea of writing how to books and work with phonics is something that will help us trive

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Unit 3: HOW TO Books: Writing to Teach Others

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Unit 3: HOW TO Books: Writing to Teach Others

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GK Unit 3 How-to Books - Writing to Teach Others

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Beacon Brazil Y4 WW Online Session 3 (April 2023) (2)

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Beacon Brazil G6KG WW Session #3 (May 2023)

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Beacon Brazil Y3 WW Online Session 3 (May 2023)

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Carl Anderson

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EKC

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EKC

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A Reading Conference: Assessment-Based Responsive Teaching to Support Comprehension ( K-2 )

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project present A Reading Conference: Assessment-Based Responsive Teaching to Support Comprehension (K-2)

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Research, Compliment, Decide, Teach Reading Conference

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Research, Compliment, Decide, Teach Reading Conference

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Multiple conferring videos (various ages) are embedded in this blog post from Heinemann...

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From A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences of The Classroom Essentials Series
Invite students to have a real give-and-take with you.

Even though in conferences you're a teacher talking to students, you're also a (more experienced) writer talking to (less experienced) fellow writers about what writers do-come up with topics, make a plan for a piece of writing, write a lead, develop a section
with detail, use commas in a series, and so on. In this give and take, you learn about what students are trying to do as writers and how well they're doing it, and the students learn how they can do their work better.

Speak in a conversational tone.

Tone is the foundation of the good relationships you want to develop with students over the course of the school year. Speaking in a warm, friendly manner puts students at ease and makes it more likely they will talk with you about what they're trying to do as writers. What you learn from this talk helps you assess students and decide what you should teach to help them grow.

Sit alongside students, at their eye level.

How you sit with students helps you establish a positive tone in conferences. You might grab a nearby empty seat or sit on one that you carry with you around the classroom. As you sit, it's important to make frequent eye contact with students and make sure that your
facial expressions show an interest in what students are telling you.

Use "active listening" strategies.

For example, give some wait time after asking a question so that students have the time and space they need to come up with a response. Ask students to "say more" about what they tell you. And repeat what children say to check that you're hearing them correctly.
Using these strategies shows that you have a real interest in what students are saying and that you're really trying to understand them. Students will usually respond by talking to you more.

The goal of a writing conference is to teach students something about writing that they can use in the future. If you add to students' writing repertoires in every conference, they become better writers over time.

Learn more at Heinemann.com

Carl Anderson is one of the nation's leading experts on teaching writing to students in grades K-12. He dedicates his energies exclusively as an education consultant and writer.

Carl recently worked for Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University as a Lead Staff Developer, providing staff development in the teaching of writing grades K-8. He spent school days in New York City elementary and middle schools demonstrating effective teaching in the writing workshop and coaching teachers. He gave day-long workshops for teachers at Teachers College on launching the writing workshop, conferring with student writers, mini-lessons, and developing curriculum for the writing workshop.

Carl is the author of numerous books including the bestselling How's It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers, as well as Assessing Writers and the series Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward Grades 3-6.

His latest book, A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences, is part of the Classroom Essentials series. Full of classroom video, the book helps teachers understand the underlying principles and reasons for conferring with students, and how to make writing conferences a part of teachers' daily routines.

Follow Carl on Twitter @ConferringCarl

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The goal of a writing conference is to teach students something about writing that they can use in the future. If you add to students' writing repertoires in every conference, they become better writers over time.

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"We-Do" Writing: Maximizing Practice to Develop Independent Writers Professional Development Book

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Your writing lesson was well-modeled, clear, and engaging, but your students were still at a loss when it came time to write independently. Why? There’s a good chance your kids needed more time in the “We-Do” phase of the gradual release model.