Product Description
A great reading conference only takes five minutes, but its impact can last a lifetime. That’s because conferences are the critical, one-to-one teaching that forms the backbone of reading instruction. Conferring with Readers shows you how to confer well and demonstrates why a few moments with students every week can put them on the path to becoming better, more independent readers.
- research a student’s use of skills through questions and observations
- compliment to support and build upon successes
- follow up on prior instruction for accountability and depth of understanding
- explain a reading strategy by providing an explicit purpose and context
- model the strategy to make the invisible brainwork of reading more visible
- guide a readerinpracticing the strategy
- link the strategy to independent reading.
- matching students to just-right books
- reinforcing students’ strengths
- supporting students during whole-class studies
- helping students move from one reading level to the next
- holding students accountable for previous learning
- deepening students’ conversations about books in order to deepen their thinking.
1. What It Means to Be a Reader
2. What It Means to Teach Reading
3. Getting Ready: Management and Structures
4. Matching Students to Just-Right Books
5. Reinforcing Students’ Strengths: Compliment Conferences
6. Supporting Students During Whole-Class Studies
7. Helping Students Move from Reading Level to Level
8. Holding Students Accountable for Previous Teaching
9. Improving Student Conversations About Books
10. Planning for What to Teach and How to Teach It
11. Working Efficiently: Group Conferring
12. Keeping Records
