A Big Picture Look at Writing Workshop in Three Primary Elementary Settings: A Repertoire of Classroom Talk Practices Across Time, Grouping, and Purposes

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

We take a big picture look at three discourse genres associated with Writing Workshop. First, we examine the range of classroom talk practice for minilessons in a second grade classroom. Second, we explore how one primary grade teacher staged her invitations to write. Finally, we consider the role that “purposeful talk” played within writing conferences in two primary grade classrooms. Together these three papers illuminate productive ways classroom talk can support student agentive voice.

Content Area

• Area 3: Literacy Instruction and Literacy Learning

Chair

• Maureen Boyd, University of Buffalo

Discussant

• Maren Aukerman, Stanford University

Individual Presentations

• How Can Whole Group Minilesson Talk Serve a Dialogic, Socially Transformative Instructional Stance? - Maureen Boyd, University of Buffalo; Lori Potteiger, University at Buffalo

• Talk that Moves Us: Staging and Responding to Invitations to Write in a Primary Grade Writing Workshop - Angela J Stefanski, Ball State University; Shirley Thacker, Indiana Writing Project

• The Transformative Power of Purposeful Talk: Writing Conference Genres and How They Position Children as Authoritative Agents or Passive Observers - Lisa K. Hawkins, Ball State University