Developing Student Writing Goals & Why Your Students Need Them!

Then it’s time to take a hard look at how we approach writing in your classroom.

We spend a lot of time teaching skills and strategies for writing, but not every student needs work on the same skill or strategy.

That’s where helping students to develop writing goals can make a huge impact.  Setting individual writing goals gives purpose to student writing, and helps students to make progress on what THEY need.  Goals drive instruction and serve as a road map for what to work on during independent writing conferences.

But - to help students achieve more success in their writing through goals, we must break it down into a simplified process.  In this week’s episode, I’m doing just that.

EPISODE 63: Conducting Writing Conferences: A Simple Goal-Driven Approach

RESOURCES:

• Launching Writer’s Workshop
• Student Writer’s Notebook