2013 Title I Conference

The content of the presentation will focus on how to use student writing to inform literacy instruction. Because of the popularity of rubrics and benchmarking papers, using student writing in formative ways is often overlooked. Since student writing is generative, it provides a rich resource for understanding not only how our students compose in various genres, but also how they make meaning and how they apply knowledge of text structures and phonics/phonemic awareness. Student writing samples from primary and intermediate grades will be shared in this interactive presentation in order to clarify how these samples can be used by teachers of both reading and writing.