Sandra, In response to you pressing a child for his connection.... I have just come away from a writing workshop with Carl Anderson and one of his points was not to have a predetermined mindset of "conferencing lessons" ( like teachers often do when creating minilessons for their units of study) but rather to ask the student what he is working on....What students may mean to do is not necessarily reflected in their writing even though they may understand the skill that would make them better writers. I also teach first grade and kids' inexperience for executing new and novel strategies does not necessarily mean that they don't understand these strategies. Your comments once again reminded me of that strong reader/writer connection and that it is not necessarily the content of what you are teaching but more importantly the structured framework you set up to help you teach a concept.
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