Lucy Caulkins - Conferring Ch. 13 - 14

Conferring with students and students conferring with their peers is an important part of the writing workshop experience. These two chapters described the different types of conferences that can take place. Conferencing with a student should begin with a process conference. This is when a teacher reads the draft for the first time. What is the writer trying to do? Listen and enjoy their work. A content conference allows the writer to teach us about their subject and add more information to their writing. The design conference helps determine the order of the story and also what type of writing it will be. Lastly, there is the evaluative conference that may look at different pieces of writing and the child decides their best, average, and poor piece of writing. These conferences help students to think about their writing. I appreciated knowing about these different types of conferences and to not mix the types together.