What I will use from this conference

 

The workshop that I could see most used in my classroom was the teaching the 6 traits with picture books.  I am a fairly new teacher, this is my 3^rd year, and I finally feel like I have a better handle on my curriculum and what I need to teach throughout the year.  I loved seeing how the 6 traits could easily be taught through text.  I sometimes forget that modeling writing is the best way to teach certain traits.  Since this conference I have already begun to point out the traits in the read alouds I do with my first graders.  I hope to begin next year with teaching the 6 traits of writing and then referring back to them frequently throughout the year.  The ideas from this workshop will be used the most in my classroom.