Month: September 2017

We are having a book club with this book!  Click on Reading Zone Book Club below for more information, and register on the staff development calendar.

Reading Zone Book Club

I love this book!  Check out the short video clips.  This would be great to show at a staff meeting or professional day to start a conversation about what we value in our reading instruction.  

Disrupting Thinking Video Clip

Video clip #2

As promised, here is the reading conference template that was shared at Faye Brownlie’s assessment workshop last night.

Before we did this particular type of conference, we had spent much time on the following:

• teaching students how to pick a book that was a “just right” book for them.
• teaching students many strategies for when they get stuck on an unknown word.
• teaching how to make connections.  “This story reminds me of….”

So when we sat down with this template, it wasn’t the first time our learners heard this language.  It made the conversations natural, and just like every other day.  The “assessment” wasn’t an “event”.

Enjoy!

reading conference template word document

reading conference template pdf

Thank you so much Kelli Vogstad, for this thoughtful blog post about core competencies.

“What are the conditions that allow learners to assess their own learning in ways that are honest, thoughtful, and to help them move forward in their learning?”

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