This episode shares the understandings needed in order to get the most out of the two upcoming series:

Strategies for Writing and All About Conferring

There are a variety of common struggles for our writers and I hope to help you by sharing specific strategies for each of them in the upcoming podcast series.

Conferring is a topic I have not yet thoroughly addressed so I will be alternating the strategies series with a conferring one as well.

Before sharing both series, I wanted to be sure to provide some helpful understandings that come along with meeting writers' needs with both writing strategies and writing conferences.

This episode discusses:

• Identifying the true needs of your writers
• Avoiding 'jumping to conclusions"
• Focusing on the writer
• Conferences as conversations

If you are looking to up your writing instruction in your classroom even further, listen in to this episode and be ready to get started!

About Melissa:

Melissa is an enthusiastic educator and continuous learner with over 19 years' experience in education. Her passion and expertise is transforming writing programs so that teachers are confident in writing instruction and student writers thrive! She strongly believes teachers are the key to effective instruction and their writers are their best resources.

Melissa knows that too often, explicit writing instruction is pushed aside in elementary education, and she feels it is her calling to help schools make it front and center, providing teachers with the knowledge and support necessary to implement effective and engaging writing instruction.

Teaching to Transform, LLC was started by Melissa in 2018 and partners with school districts to provide professional development in writing instruction.

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