Write from the Start: Conferring with Young English Language Learners [DVD Workshop Kit]
Andie Cunningham and Ruth Shagoury
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How can a teacher confer with a child who speaks a different language? How can teachers confer with many children speaking many different languages, all in the same classroom? In Write from the Start: Conferring with Young English Language Learners, Andie Cunningham and Ruth Shagoury confer with five-, six- and seven-year-olds in Andie's kindergarten writing workshop. Daily conferences are an essential element of the literacy curriculum, helping students see the links between their home language and culture, English, and making meaning through print.
The nine conferences on the DVD feature boys and girls with first languages of Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Hmong, and Russian. The children are at different stages in their language development - from confidently verbal to silent. The writing the children produce is a mix, too - with a range from strings of words with conventional spellings, to drawings and individual letters labeling pictures.
The print materials on the companion Workshop Guide CD provide step-by-step instructions for sixteen different workshops in a variety of formats. Workshop topics include basic conferring principles, understanding the "silent period" of English language learning, assessment to track writing growth and development, and analyzing boys' writing through drawing. Student writing samples, practical explanations of literacy and learning theories, and recordkeeping tools are all provided.
You can meet Andie and Ruth in this brief video introduction to Write from the Start: Conferring with Young English Language Learners. (Please be aware that the visual and audio quality of web video is significantly lower than that of the published DVD.)
You may have to click the "play" button twice on the console to begin the video, depending upon the browser and operating system on your computer.
You can download and preview a full copy of the Workshop Guide in pdf format
by clicking here.
This DVD/CD workshop kit is available for $229, which includes all shipping and handling fees.
All Choice Literacy video purchases have a money-back guarantee. If for any reason you are unsatisfied with the kit, you can return the package within thirty days for a full refund.
To download the order form to purchase Write from the Start: Conferring with Young English Language Learners,
click here.
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