The document provides guidance on effective questioning techniques during writing conferences with students. It outlines 6 types of questions teachers should ask: 1) Questions that nudge students to elaborate, 2) Questions about good writing practices, 3) Questions about writing strategies, 4) Questions drawing on prior knowledge of individual students, 5) Questions connecting to previous mini-lessons, and 6) Questions about students' writing decisions. The role of students is also to be discussed through an activity called "Fish Bowl."

1. How’s It Going?A practical guide to conferring with student writers Written By: Carl Anderson Presented By: Meredith Clark, Devon Dudash, Lauren Ring

2. What do you already know about conferring?

3. Teacher’s Role

4. That nudge students to say more That grow out of our knowledge of what good writers do About students’ writing strategies That come from what we already know about students Connected to our mini-lessons About a student’s decisions Questions…

5. Questions that nudge students to say more “Could you saw more about that?” “What do you mean by…” “Could you explain what you mean by…”

6. Questions that grow out of our knowledge of what good writer’s do “Have you planned out your draft?” “What’s the focus of your piece?” “What kinds of revisions have you made?”

7. Questions about students’ writing strategies “How are you going to do this work? “What strategies are you going to use to do this work?” “How are you planning to get started with your draft?”

8. Questions that come from what we already know about students “Have you done some of the revision work you tried in your last piece?” “How did you pick the idea for your draft this time?”

9. Questions connected to our mini-lessons “Have you tried out what we talked about today in the mini-lesson?” “Remember how we talked yesterday in the mini-lesson about revision strategies? Have you used any of them to help you revise?”

10. Questions about a student’s decisions “Why did you pick these places to add-on?” “Why did you decide to structure your draft this way?” “Why did you repeat this line several times?”

11. Student’s Role and Teaching students about their conference role

12. Fish Bowl