Conferring with Students
Example of a Reading Conference Log that can be used when conferring with students about their reading.
Informal Reading Conference
Name: _____________________________________________
Date: __________________________
Begin Time: _____ End Time: ______
Bring me a book that you can read pretty well.
Title: _______________________________________________
Genre: _________________________
How did you know? ______________
Why did you choose this book?
Is this book easy, just right, or challenging? How do you know?
Tell me what the book is about so far.
Read this part of the book for me. If you catch yourself thinking or talking back to the book, please do it out
loud so I can hear your thinking.
Uses
Skip and
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Rereading Chunking
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Miscues and Comments:
Comprehension: Brief Retell or “What were you thinking?” Stopped to think on own __________
With prompting __________
Making meaning yes
no
Strategy Use: monitoring ~ connecting ~ sensory imagery ~ questioning ~ inferring ~ DI ~ synthesis
Strengths:
Goal:
What are your reading plans?
Adapted from: Routman, R. (2003). Reading essentials: The specifics you need to teach reading well. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.