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Reading improves writing and writing improves reading.

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Reading improves writing and writing improves reading.

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This section examines how students can use alternative mediums for writing. When technology isn't available, options for writing include tools for helping students write as independently as possible. When digital technology resources are available, students have the opportunity to explore open-source platform to further engage students with their writing.

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Author sometimes doesn't have a fixed ideas. They just take an idea and run with it.

Writing does not a set form (5 paragraph) and does not need to be all planned out.

"the insight that writing is tool for thinking helps us to understand the process of drafting and revision as one of exploration.

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Extended practice over years.
Develop reflective abilities.
Meta awareness about the writing.
Process for writing its not an algorithm its not formulaic. The process that works best for them.
Modeling Pro vs Con. Doesn't work for some kids.
Collaborative learning. Easy Not Easy.

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This section relates to our group discussion of the idea that "everyone's a writer." Everyone writes and everyone will benefit from learning to write effectively to accomplish a variety of goals effectively- from the perfect thank-you note to a well-versed research paper.

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Overwhelming amounts of ways to offer feedback.

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Overwhelming amounts of ways to offer feedback.

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Teachers include bias in their feedback even with rubrics.

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Teachers include bias in their feedback even with rubrics.

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Need for multiple forms/opportunities to assess.

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Need for multiple forms/opportunities to assess.

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assessment helps us to decide what to teach next & is frequently formative, not just summative. 

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assessment helps us to decide what to teach next & is frequently formative, not just summative. 

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Those that read often find writing easier, but a writer primarily improves through writing.

Writers make sense of structure through reading.

Students need to read both professional AND student writing examples.

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Sometimes, educators place too much emphasis on the final product rather than the writing process. Further emphasis placed on the writing process helps students engage with the writing steps and see how their writing develops over time. Teachers can help students take accountability for their writing by creating and committing to student centered goals.

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"frequent conversations about the connections between what we read and what we write are helpful" (10).

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"frequent conversations about the connections between what we read and what we write are helpful" (10).

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Writing is an act of Discovery.
Strategies to start. Multiple modalities.
Writers Notebooks. Sketchbooks. Digital Notebooks.
Prompt writing. Real world situations. Write then talk out.
Roleplaying as a thinking activity.
Motivation. Can come from writing as thinking.

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the assessment of writing is ABOUT the quality of writing.  

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the assessment of writing is ABOUT the quality of writing.  

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NOt only talking about the wriitng but also how you are writing.

ALL CONFERENCE IS IMPORTANT.

Storytelling

Usual ways of speak may or may not work for every piece of writing.

Sometimes you write before you talk, sometimes you talk before you write.

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Teaching the relationship that writer's develop with readers connects to students relating to each other in mostly a positive manner. Their own connects can help them understand the writer's perspective and treatment of the audience. 

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Teaching the relationship that writer's develop with readers connects to students relating to each other in mostly a positive manner. Their own connects can help them understand the writer's perspective and treatment of the audience. 

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In many situations, people write becuase "someone tells them to," whether it's a parent, a boss, or a teacher. This creates a power-based relationship with writing where a student may not feel that their own words or style is as valuable as another's. As teachers, we need to value a student's own background and culture and encourage them to use it in their writing.

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In order to adequately assess, we must know what we're looking for

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In order to adequately assess, we must know what we're looking for

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We must know what the features of good writing are, what growth in writing looks like, recognize students individual strengths & needs for areas of growth.

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Everybody can write is cliche because there is no value judgement.
If you can find a strategy that works for you; you will be successful in any writing task.

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This section also emphasizes how teachers can advocate and develop best writing practices by helping students develop and improve their language and writing voice/registrar level. 

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This section also emphasizes how teachers can advocate and develop best writing practices by helping students develop and improve their language and writing voice/registrar level. 