Teacher/Student conferences are cross-referenced with sessions t within the writing workshop format

1. Grade Three
Unit of Study Two – Personal Narrative with Turning Points
Session Notebook Section Folder Conferring
1. Immersion List your noticings
 Minilesson
Encourage
Writerly Life
2. Immersion cont. Continue to list your
noticings
 Minilesson
Encourage
Check-in
3. What Do You
Notice?
 Minilesson Encourage
Writerly life
Check-in
4. Using Important
Moments
 What Should I
Write About
 Writing
4-5 Students
5. Using First and
Last Times
 What Should I
Write About
 Writing
4-5 Students
6. Using Emotion  What Should I
Write About
 Writing
4-5 Students
7. Conferencing and
What the Writer Should
Do
Guidelines for
Conferring
 Minilesson
Encourage
8. Being a Good
Listener for Your Partner
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
9. What Am I Trying
to Tell the Reader?
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
10. Leads
 Create an anchor
chart
 Minilesson Student Drafts 4-5 Students
11. Leads
 Continue creating
an anchor chart
 Minilesson Student Drafts 4-5 Students
12. Drafting the
Mental Movie
 Writing Student Drafts 4-5 Students
13. Then and Now  Minilesson Student Drafts 4-5 Students
14. Making Mountains  Minilesson Story Mountain 4-5 Students
15. Modeling
Narrative Writing Using
Thinking Maps
This lesson is optional
16. Revision  Minilesson
Revise vs. Edit
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
17. Editing  Minilesson
Revise vs. Edit
Student Drafts 4-5 Students
18. Final Hoorah! Student Drafts NA