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Conferring with Primary Writers (CD-ROM)
by Lucy Calkins, Amanda Hartman, & Zoë White

A practical reference and a dynamic staff development tool for Units of Study for Primary Writing

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Conferring with Primary Writers' nimble sorting feature allows you to quickly and easily organize conferences according to your needs and interests. The 61 conferences in Conferring with Primary Writers can be sorted and organized by Unit of Study as they are below.
 
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Conferences Grouped by Unit of Study
The conferences below have been organized in the order you will tend to use them if you are teaching our yearlong curriculum Units of Study for Primary Writing. By reading the conferences in each section prior to teaching the unit, you can anticipate the kinds of conferences you will conduct, and you'll be better able to plan for your particular class. Studying these conferences as you teach will help you lift the level of your on-the-spot conferences.
    Launching the Primary Writing Workshop
    LW-1 Let Me Show You How to Write More.
    LW-2 What's Happening in Your Piece?
    LW-3 What's the Story in This Picture, Bryanna?
    LW-4 What's the Story in This Picture, Nicholas?
    LW-5 What's the Story in This Picture, Song Lee?
    LW-6 What's the Story in This Picture, Victoria?
    LW-7 Where Is Your Writing, Aja?
    LW-8 Where Is Your Writing, George?
    LW-9 Why Don't You Write a Sign for the Block Area?
    W-10 Writers Share Community Supplies.
    Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing
    SM-1 Can I Show You How to Write What Happened First, Then Next, Ford?
    SM-2 Can I Show You How to Write What Happened First, Then Next, Ford?
    SM-3 Can I Show You How to Write What Happened First, Then Next, Talia?
    SM-4 Can You Reenact That Part in a Way That Shows Me Exactly What Happened?
    SM-5 Let Me Help You Put Some Words Down, Liam.
    SM-6 Nothing Happens in My Life.
    SM-7 What Is the Most Important Part of Your Story, Shariff?
    SM-8 Will You Touch Each Page and Say What You'll Write?
    SM-9 Writers Make Time to Write Words.
    Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies
    WR-1 Can You Tell a Story and Show It on the Paper?
    WR-2 Famous Writers Use Periods to Tell Readers When to Stop.
    WR-3 Writers Sometimes Put Labels on Their Pictures.
    WR-4 I Don't Want to Write the Words the Wrong Way.
    WR-5 If You Erase That Word and Scoot It Over, It Will Be Easier to Read.
    WR-6 Let me Help You Put Some Words Down, Jalen.
    WR-7 Let me Help You Put Some Words Down, Sidney.
    WR-8 Reread as You Write, Noticing White Spaces and Spelling.
    WR-9 Say and Record a Word, Then Reread.
    WR-10 What Is the Most Important Part of Your Story, Justin?
    The Craft of Revision
    CR-1 Are ALL of Your Words Important to Your Story?
    CR-2 Are You Doing Revision Work That Makes Important Changes?
    CR-3 As a Reader, I'd Love to Hear More About That, Omid.
    CR-4 But How Did You Get There, Shiwan?
    CR-5 Can You Reenact That Part in a Way That Shows Me How You Felt?
    CR-6 Let's Look at Your Lead and Your Ending.
    CR-7 Make Sure That You Are Adding Those Words for a Reason!
    CR-8 Study an Example to Get Ideas to Revision.
    CR-9 This Part is Confusing to Me, Alexa.
    Authors as Mentors
    AM-1 Are You Stuck?
    AM-2 Are You Sure You Are Done Writing?
    AM-3 But How Did You Feel in Your Story?
    AM-4 Can We Study What This Author Did and Let Her Teach Us Some Lessons?
    AM-5 Use a Refrain.
    AM-6 You Can Use Ellipses to Show Waiting.
    AM-7 What Is the Most Important Part of Your Story, Marley?
    AM-8 What Else Could You Try That Mem Fox Does?
    Nonfiction: Procedures and Reports
    NF-1 Can I Show You How Writers Find Ideas?
    NF-2 If There's No Punctuation, When I Read Your Writing, It Sounds Like Gobbledygook.
    NF-3 Make a Mental Movie of Yourself Following Your Directions to See If They're Clear.
    NF-4 What Are You Teaching Your Readers?
    NF-5 What Will You Write in Your Table of Contents?
    NF-6 Where Is Your Author's Voice?
    NF-7 Which Part Goes Where?
    Poetry: Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
    PO-1 Are Those the Sounds You Hear?
    PO-2 Can I Help You Come Up With Ideas?.
    PO-3 Can You Help Me See What You Saw?
    PO-4 Can You Think of One Moment That Holds the Big Feeling the Ocean Gives You?
    PO-5 What Does the Rain Remind You of?
    PO-6 What Is the Most Important Feeling in Your Poem, Klara?
    PO-7 What Is the Most Important Feeling in Your Poem, Maddie?
    PO-8 Where Is Your Writing, Marko?
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