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Autumn Stevens held writing conferences with four students to discuss their writing strengths and weaknesses. Most students said they needed help with punctuation and grammar. During the conferences, Autumn had each student identify a writing weakness and provided compliments on their strengths. She then offered tips tailored to their needs, such as using different types of punctuation in sample sentences. Autumn concluded by asking about their plans for improving writing in upcoming class lessons. She felt the structured conferences helped her understand each student's abilities and how to support them moving forward.

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Autumn Stevens held writing conferences with four students to discuss their writing strengths and weaknesses. Most students said they needed help with punctuation and grammar. During the conferences, Autumn had each student identify a writing weakness and provided compliments on their strengths. She then offered tips tailored to their needs, such as using different types of punctuation in sample sentences. Autumn concluded by asking about their plans for improving writing in upcoming class lessons. She felt the structured conferences helped her understand each student's abilities and how to support them moving forward.

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Autumn Stevens

ELED 3226-002
Dr. Strong
29 October 2019

Entry #4

During my writing conference with four students I learned a lot about the students’

strategies of writing and their thoughts about how they feel about writing as a whole. I started

the writing conference off by activating prior knowledge with a question, “what do you think

you could use more help with as a writer?”. The most common answer I received from the

students was that they needed more help with punctuation and grammar and others stated

that they would like to write more neatly. I had each student write down their writing weakness

in a complete sentence, so I could understand where they were with writing and compliment

the things that each student did well. Half of the students did a really good job with keeping

their words on the line, so I would complement them on their hand-writing and let them know I

appreciated the way they wrote their words so neatly and others did a good job with starting

their sentences with a capital letter which I then complimented them on as well. After each

student was able to express their weakness in a full sentence, I wanted to take that time to give

them a tip to help them with their writing. For instance, the students that wanted to focus on

writing their punctuation I suggested we tried creating sentences that would include

punctuations such a colon, semi-colon and periods. This allowed those select students to see

punctuation written in a variety of sentences to help them better understand the why behind

each punctuation so that when they were writing on their own, they would become

comfortable with using punctuation. I concluded the conference with asking what their plan
with writing is when they get back to writing their own paragraphs in the lesson that the

teacher had planned for them later that week.

My experience with the writing conferences were good. I did the conference after a week of

being in the classroom so the select students would feel comfortable with sharing their writing

experiences with me whether they were good or bad experiences. I feel as though the

conference was structured enough to ensure that I was collecting the data I needed from each

students to be able to analyze and help them with their writing weaknesses to help them with

what they were moving on with in their class which was writing essays. Some of the students

struggled with the solutions that would help them as a writing as well as what they were do to

try to improve their writing but after asking questions an guiding them through the conference

we were able to come up with solutions that they could work on during independent writing

time in their class.

During the writing conference, I learned that asking the right questions will allow student to

think a little deeper as what makes them a good writer and what are the things that they are

lacking in writing. The questions asked during the conference allowed the students to bring out

elicit ideas for how to improve their own writing and what that looks like for them.

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