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Writing Conference Role Play
Role Play 1 – Writer Doesn’t Know His Job
Teacher: What are you working on as a writer?
Child A: I’m writing about my basketball game.
Teacher: What are you trying to do as a writer?
Child A: I am writing about playing with my team.
Teacher: What will you do today in your writing?
Child A: I will write about how I shot the basketball.
Role Play 2 – Writer Understands His Job
Teacher: What are you working on as a writer?
Child A: I’m writing a personal narrative about playing basketball, and I’ve zoomed in
on the moment I shot the basketball and tied the game.
Teacher: What are you trying to do as a writer?
Child A: I want to write with details so that my reader can picture the scene in their
mind.
Teacher: What will you do today in your writing?
Child A: I was going to sketch the scene to see if that helps me remember the details I’ve
left out.
Appendix A
Finding A Great Idea From Your Notebook
1. Reread through all of the entries in your notebook from beginning to end.
2. Highlight your favorite phrases or sentences.
3. Ask yourself questions about your entries.
What seems interesting/intriguing to me?
What stuff do I care most deeply about?
What ideas keep tugging at me?
What seems bold and original?
Where are the places where it’s not just “the same old
thing’?
Where does the writing seem fresh and new?
4. Take your two to three most powerful ideas and try
to write a half page (no more, no less) on each in
your notebook.
Which feels the easiest and most comfortable?
Which takes the least amount of time to fill half of the
page?
Appendix B
_________________’s
Writing Project Deadline Calendar
Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri.
Appendix C
Sample Writing Process Project Board
A Writing Process Project Board allows teachers and students to visually track the progress of a writer during all
phrases of the writing process. Each student has a clothespin, magnet, or marker with their name. As they move
through the writing process, students move their clip to show where they are in the writing process: selecting a
seed idea, planning/prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, or publishing.
Optional Visuals for a Classroom Project Board
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix E
Appendix E
Appendix F
Crafting My Movie Moment‐by‐Moment
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Crafting My Story Moment‐by‐Moment
Lead First… Next…
After that… Finally… Ending
Appendix G
Appendix H
F. I. T. Chart
Topic:
Prompt:
Truism (Life Lesson):
Feelings
Ideas
Thoughts/Speech
Lead:
Problem or Topic:
Detail or Event 1:
Detail or Event 2:
Detail or Event 3:
Conclusion:
Appendix I
________________’s Revising Checklist
My Check Item to Revise My Partner’s Check
Does each episode or scene in my story have
its own paragraph? Is the dialogue shown in
separate paragraphs?
Are there parts of the story that need to be
moved, added, or deleted to make the ideas
more clear?
Have I crafted a lead to similar to one of our
mentor texts? Does my opening sentence
hook the reader and make them want to keep
reading?
Do my sentences sound different from each
other? Do they use different transition words
rather than all starting the same way?
Do I have examples of writer’s craft in my
piece (sensory details and rich language)?
Have I crafted an ending similar to one of our
mentor texts? Have I crafted an ending that
brings my piece to a close and leaves no
questions for my readers?
________________’s Editing Checklist
Skill Area Explanation Comments
Capitalization Have I capitalized the names of people, places, and
things? Do all my sentences begin with a capital letter?
Have I capitalized the pronoun “I”?
Usage Have I used the parts of speech correctly? Do my
subjects agree with my verbs? Have I used complete
sentences?
Punctuation Have I ended each complete thought with a piece of
punctuation? Have I used author techniques such as
dialogue and ellipses?
Spelling Have I read through my story and looked for core
words that are misspelled? Have I looked for tricky
words that are misspelled?
Appendix J
Appendix K
Fun Ways to Revise
Sticky Notes
One revision tool we can use is sticky notes. We stick a note
where we want to add a few words or sentences and write the text on the note.
Spider Legs Or we can use “spider legs.” That’s a cool name, right? A “spider leg” is a strip of paper that
we tape to the side of the draft, next to the place where we want to add text. We call them
“spider legs” because after we have added a few strips to the draft, it looks like it has lots of
legs like a spider.
Add a Carrot
We can also add using “carrot add ons.” An “add on” is a letter or
number that shows us where in the draft we want to add text.
Story Surgery
Completely revising or editing a piece.
Cutting out a paragraph and taping or you can glue a new piece.
Metaphors for Six Traits
Have students develop a classroom metaphor for the traits that they can refer to throughout
the year as a way to talk about their writing. For additional information, go to the web site:
http://writingfix.com/traits.htm.
http://writingfix.com/traits.htm
Appendix L