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.
- Quote on pg. 44 -