Student Conferencing

Most of my feedback and feedforward occurs during face-to-face class conference.  Below is a link demonstrating a writing conference with a student.  I believe a conference is needed for a student to demonstrate their knowledge, ask questions and connect a task's success criteria to their own work.
I find a short written affirmation and a succinct next step is as much 'written feedback' as the students need.  The bulk of the feedback comes orally.
I have tried to pose more questions to the students during conference time this year as it allows them the opportunity show deeper thinking and self-reflection on their achievement.
I found very few students would start the next writing session by looking back though a teacher's indepth previous comment, so opted to keep the comment to a minimum with usually just a next step that is narrowed down to one of two targeted areas for growth.  A long written comment was usually wasted effort as it often needed the teacher to unpack for the child anyway.

The cons of having one to one face-time means it can take a long time to see every student.  This will be a future focus of mine- to find a more streamlined way to get around the class.

These are examples of feedback/feedforward in draft writing books.  Each of these comments was coupled with a face-to-face conference:

Click here to view a student writing conference video