Lesson Plan
Peer Conferencing 101
Give your second graders a glimpse into the life of an author as they give and receive feedback to revise their stories.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to use the peer conference format to provide feedback to a peer.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Gather your students together for the start of the lesson.
- Explain that today they are going to practice giving and receiving feedback about their writing from a peer.
- Ask your students if they know what feedback means. Allow time for 1-2 responses. After some discussion, define feedback as the process we use to get information about something to make it better. In this case, your students' classmates will offer suggestions and ideas to help make their writing better.
- Call on student volunteers to help you define the following words: editor, edit, and revision. After hearing some of their answers, define editor as someone who checks writing for mistakes and makes edits, which means they show how to correct mistakes. Define revision as making changes.
- Explain that today, your class will be working in pairs to give each other feedback. They will do this in a peer conference.
- Take a moment and provide a definition for what a peer conference is. For example, a peer conference is when two peers (classmates or friends) come together and look carefully each person's writing and give each other feedback to make it better.