Study Guides In addition to providing 61 conferences in an easy-to-read format with a concise instructional design, Conferring with Primary Writers also allows you to use a word processing format to modify conferences into customizable Study Guides. These customizable Study Guides allow you to select conferences in one of five forms: Complete Conference, and then Interactive Study Guide Format 1-4.
Complete Conference This option provides all the conferences in their original format, which you may be familiar with from the pages of The Conferring Handbook in the Units of Study for Primary Writing series. This format makes clear how the conference was delivered and the particular moves the teacher made. We label the conference components, the conference type, and the teaching method the teacher used. The narration helps you hear the teacher's exact words and envision the interaction. Lucy's commentary alongside helps you understand the choices the teacher has made.
Study Guide 1: Conferences Without Commentary In this option you will find the complete text of the conferences in a format that allows you to enter into and modify them as you need. We've omitted the commentary to make it easier for you to add your own thinking to the conference texts.
Study Guide 2: Conferences Without Commentary or Boldface Guidelines This format omits both the commentary, to make room for your own, and the explicit, generalizable moves that had appeared in bold print. You can use this format to help you think about which general moves we made in the conference and why and where they occur. You can compare your thinking to ours by looking back at the original format that contains the boldface statements.
Study Guide 3: Conferences Without Commentary, Boldface Guidelines or Marked Components This format is useful when you are studying and learning about conference components, because you can mark for yourself where the research begins and ends, identify the compliment, specify what strategy the teacher is teaching and how she is teaching it, and find the link. You can then compare your thinking to ours in the formatted versions of the conferences, in which the components are marked.
Study Guide 4: Conferences in Dialogue This format is useful when you are studying and learning about conference components, because you can mark for yourself where the research begins and ends, identify the compliment, specify what strategy the teacher is teaching and how she is teaching it, and find the link. You can then compare your thinking to ours in the formatted versions of the conferences, in which the components are marked.
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