Andrea/October

Well, my literacy conferring binder is officially made for reading/writing and I have starting conferring. Although I haven't started any strategy groups, I've been seeing some good things. After attending the 6 Traits writing meeting yesterday, I realized that I am focusing too much on the "nitty gritty" things in students writing. For example, capital letters and punctuation. So, I think I'm going to have most students focus on 2 other goals, which hopefully will be more meaningful. They would be to have students reread orally out loud to themselves after they're done writing to check for understanding, and then while they're doing inventive spelling, try to stretch out words more to hear more sounds. (Rather than focus on only the correct way to spell a word, just try your best to stretch out all the sounds. This will transfer to reading too if they come to an unknown word.) Happy Fall!