Reading Conferences

Thank you so much for being a great audience at yesterday's faculty meeting. I hope you found at least one takeaway to support your goal of implementing Lucy Calkins with fidelity!

Just a quick recap of yesterday's learning: We went over the different components of Lucy Calkins' Research-Decide-Teach Conference.

Research: This may involve questioning the reader, looking at his work, or thinking back over all you know of the reader, his process, goals, text level, and all the other data you have collected about him and his reading.

Decide & Compliment: This involves making a decision about the most helpful lesson to teach this reader, and it includes offering the reader a compliment that is meant to support and instruct.

Teach: This phase may take various forms, depending on the method of teaching you choose. It includes a teaching point and the reader's active involvement. This phase will also be where you help the reader link your teaching in this moment to her ongoing independent reading work.

Please let me know if you would like an extra body in your space when you get kick off your documentation of conferring. This is a hard system to figure out, and I would love to figure it out with you! Click here to sign up for a time that I could come in and watch your learners while you confer with them. (great evidence to add to your Strive goal! Also, I might come with a treat ;))

Here is the link for the Workshop Toolkit that has all the handouts of ways to document your conferring and guided reading book list support.

Here is the Bands of Complexity

Here is a helpful progression for Informational Reading for grades 2-5.

As always, please let me know if there is anything you would like support in!

-jacque