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I often find it helpful to have a one - page menu of everything i've planned. Usually this menu has a list of characteristics of a leveled text, questions to ask to assess the student's understanding of that level, and possible teaching points that would stem from the assessment
Conferring With Readers by Jennifer Serravallo
Chapter 10 Planning for What to Teach and How to Teach It
This idea of a menu is so helpful! This would also be so much easier as a "lesson plan" in our internship as well for reading/writing workshops. It would not only be easier, but also more helpful and laid out since it is all on one page with everything you might need. There are questions to ask, characteristics of text, teaching points from assessments, there are just so many things you can use. This whole menu idea helped me visualize all of the ways to plan teaching that was in this chapter. Mining your own reading to help students, analyzing book logs, use of conferences, studying text levels, and analyzing running records all just were in my head as a one sheet piece of paper that was a menu to what could be taught around that. The one thing I really related back to my internship was the Analyzing of the book logs. My teacher does this similarly to the book. None of the students fill out a book log on their own. The teacher just asks students during independent reading what book they are on, and what page number they are on. My coaching teacher told me that this was for her to see how many pages they have read, if they are on the same book or skip books, and if they are reading at home or not. I have always thought of book logs as student accountability for themselves that they have to fill out. I'm unsure which idea I prefer or which idea would be more useful to the teacher and the student. Overall, I really love the idea of basing a teaching point off of the reading logs of the students.
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One reason I start by complimenting is that it sets the tone for the rest of the year by showing students I am a teacher who notices strengths.
Conferring With Readers by Jennifer Serravallo
Chapter 5 Reinforcing Student Strengths: Compliment Conferences
This definitely brought me back to Taberski "starting with what the child is doing well" (pg. 126). Starting off by complimenting a student, to me, always felt natural. Like you were supposed to start off like that. Learning about compliment conferences however, is not something I had even thought about. I love that you arent teaching a new strategy in these conferences, you are just restating and reinforcing the strategy you might have seen a student using. I also thought this would be great to do with our small teachers as well. When you first begin reading with a small teacher you automatically see what strategies they are using before you even teach them a strategy. This would be a great place to compliment them and reinforce their strategy so that they feel confident about what they are doing when they read. I also thought that the table compliments were also interesting. Where you call out one student on a strategy that student was using, and explain to other students at the table what that strategy is and how to use it and for them to all try it. Calling out one specific student, would that not make the others feel bad for not using that strategy? Or would it just give them the opportunity to try out a new strategy?
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Reading levels are just one part of getting to know my students as readers
Conferring With Readers by Jennifer Serravallo
Chapter 4 Matching Students to Just Right Books
After meeting our small teachers this week, this whole chapter really helped me to learn more about just right books as well as getting to know our students. This even helped me to write my RTC this week as well. This quote just really stuck out to me because just getting to know a reading level of a student is not all what you need to know about them to understand them as a reader. This is exactly why we have Interest Inventories to use when getting to know our students as readers. We get to ask them what interests them, what they do for fun, and what they do outside of school. All of this plays a role in our students reading. Getting to know our students interests will help us to find them these just right books. ”The closer the content is to their own experiences or subject they know about, the more they are capable of” (Taberski Chapter 1). This is right on point with what we are learning in our reading and what we are learning with our small teachers. We are learning that the more they relate to things, the more they are capable of doing.
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