Hi Meg, The Teaching of Reading Institute sounds very inspiring.
How do you conduct the conferences twice a week per student and how long per student? What would be an example of questions you would use to conference? Also, for seventh grade, how many pages per 30 minutes should an average, independent reader be reading? My initial reading assessment has 35% of my students below grade level in their reading. I have 150 students. Just wondering how I could conference with them twice weekly. I do agree that the value of face-to-face discussion is mighty powerful if organized in a workable way. How do you do it? Lucinda ----- Original Message ----- From: "meg krause" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [LIT] lit Digest, Vol 24, Issue 18 >I am having reading logs work for me for the first time - after 5 > years of bombing because there was no accountability. I attended the > Teaching of Reading Institute at Teachers College (NYC) this summer > and learned so much about how to plan for and encourage independent > reading and thinking about reading. An "a ha" moment for me was how > TC uses the reading log. Kids record their in-school and at-home > reading. The log comes to every reading conference (I hit each kid > twice/week) and it is used as an assessment tool. Basically, TC's > research shows that kids (at any level) should read 3/4's a page per > minute (if they are reading at their independent level - TC ins big on > level books) this equals 20 pages per 30 minutes. So it is easy to > figure what they should be reading in a week. Then at the end of the > month the kids total up in school and at home reading and compare to > previous month. The MAIN thing is that the log has to be valued by > the teacher and used for discussion about reading goals and > achievement regularly. Fire off questions if this isn't clear. Meg > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.3/1082 - Release Date: > 10/20/2007 2:59 PM > > _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
