Helping Writers Take Flight
Sonia Jolliffe
Teacher Inquiry Project
TE 848
Michigan State University
Postcards
"I liked getting to hear what everyone else thought was good about my poem because not everyone liked the same part, but some things no one picked, so those were what I knew I had to change."
"The best part about leading my conference with you was that I felt like a professional writer meeting with my editor. It made me take the entire poem more seriously."
"The rubric was good because I could take it home with me and think about it. I actually looked at it again for...my free choice poem."
"Having to lead the conference with you made me nervous because I wasn't sure that I was asking about the right parts of my poem."
"The people in my group had a lot of suggestions of things to change, but I didn't really want to change a lot of what they wanted me to because I liked it the way it was. But I think it was good that we got different opinions because then there was more chance that we could actually get good advice."