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Keri Franklin |
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“I Don’t Want to Share My Writing’: Fostering
Student-Led Writing Conversations” |
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Keri modeled activities that can be used with students, and writing groups to create a safe writing environment for speaking, thinking, and writing. Resource: Being A Writer by Elbow and Belanoff. Keri teaches at
*Writing is not an isolated pursuit for most writers, especially classroom teachers, but sometimes teaching students how to talk authentically and peer conference productively can be difficult. In this workshop, Keri will model activities that you can use with students, and even with your own writing groups, to create a safe environment for speaking, thinking, and writing. Building a community of writers and creating a safe writing environment in the classroom fosters an atmosphere in which students take risks with their writing and teachers see improvement in student-led writing conferences. Spending time building community using cooperative learning team- and class-building structures enables productive talk to occur in your classroom. Keri will discuss Elbow’s map of audience and response and his concept that good writers travel all over the map. Finally, you will get the chance to explore your own travels on the map of audience and response by writing using private and public freewriting prompts and practicing a variety of responses from Elbow and Belanoff’s Being A Writer.
*Write to Learn program description |
