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Building Peer Conferring Skills in the Primary Grades


Building Peer Conferring Skills in the Primary Grades - Choice Literacy

Peer conferring creates those opportunities for shared leadership, decision-making, ownership, and responsibility. It's another way to expand the teaching and ...

Peer Conferring: The Modeling Phase - Choice Literacy

When fourth-grade teacher Melissa Styger and I began to plan for peer conferring in her classroom, she was clear about her end goal. Melissa values peer ...

Building Peer Conferring Skills in the Primary Grades - Pinterest

Enhance your teaching skills with practical strategies to promote peer conferring in elementary classrooms. Join expert Ann Marie Corgill in this insightful ...

Using the Conferring Technique to Nudge Students to Success

Ask a deeper, probing question to require the student to think deeply. These questions are not always at the tip of our tongues, which is why it ...

Peer Conferences: Strategies and Consequences

Effective peer conferring is a learned skill and requires a lot of practice. ... Providing specific, content-rich response is not beyond the ability of elementary ...

Writing Conferences | Reading Rockets

Building Peer Conferring Skills in the Primary Grades (opens in a new window) ... first grade). In this video, a teacher helps a student reread his piece ...

Leveraging Peer Power to Improve Writing - Edutopia

Dorfman advises offering prompts students might use in the conversations, such as “Tell me more.” Give students autonomy to decide when and how ...

Moving from Partnerships to Peer Conferring - Two Writing Teachers

In order to do this, you must recognize there are two kinds of peer conferring: 1) One student teaches, the other student learns. Sometimes ...

Conferencing with Student Writers | Writing Across the Curriculum

Similarly, brief conferences with students about their writing can have a transformative effect on their development and learning. For those who can secure the ...

Conferring: Writing Workshop Fundamentals - Two Writing Teachers

Conferring is a means of both assessing and providing targeted individualized instruction to students in a way that no whole class instruction ...

Conversations Among Writing Peers - Annenberg Learner

Teachers communicate reasonable expectations and recognize that conferring skills develop and improve over time. Peer conferences help students develop critical ...

Peer Conferences Keep the Writing Momentum Going - MiddleWeb

Other ways to help students improve their peer conferring skills include: ... Early in May, third graders Dan and Bryce held an unrehearsed ...

Peer Conferences in Writing Workshop | Lynne's Blog

Make sure that students understand their conferences are based on generating ideas, craft, or process rather than corrections. Peer conferences ...

Writing Conference Purpose and How It Positions Primary-Grade ...

Moreover, what teachers say and how they say it shapes those opportunities for student learning that are possible in classrooms. As such, building an ...

Conferring With Elementary Students to Enhance Literacy Skills

In my early years as a teacher, I struggled to find a way to meet the needs of all my students in reading and writing. Walking into my classroom my first year ...

Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher on the Benefits of Peer Writing ...

There are too many students and not enough time (Kelly's classes averaged 38 students). Because of this, we must help our students to provide meaningful ...

PEER FEEDBACK IN THE CLASSROOM - ASCD

In her current position, Sackstein has thrown out grades, teaching students that learn- ing isn't about numbers but the development of skills and the ability to.

Supporting Partnerships in Writing Workshop - Literacy Partners

While partners are working together, you can confer with them around specific partnering skills. Just like in a “regular” writing conference, you can offer ...

Why Conferring Matters | Three Teachers Talk

Conferring gives students the chance to share their stories; and besides creating ... ability to help them advance in their literacy skills.

Conferring with ELLs - Rooted Linguistics

A huge part of balanced literacy and a workshop setting is conferring with students. Conferring allows for maximum differentiation to meet specific ...