The Classroom Essentials Series

Writing Conferences

In A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, Carl Anderson explains the underlying principles and reasons for conferring with students, and how to make writing conferences a part of your daily routine. With clear and accessible language, Carl guides you through the three main parts of a writing conference, and shows you the teaching moves and intentional language that can be used in each one. 

He helps you understand:

  • how to get started with conferring, or improve your existing conferences
  • how to use conferences to meet the diverse needs of your student writers
  • how to fit conferences into your busy writing workshop schedule.

More than 25 videos bring the content to life, while Teacher Tips, Q&A’s, and Recommended Reading lists provide everything you need to help you become a better writing teacher.