Purposeful Reading

Conferring
Getting to know your students as readers.
Purposeful Conferring
● Know each of your students as readers

● Meet their specific needs

● Assign strategies to help meet a specific goal

● Students can learn and practice what good readers do

Effective Reading Conferring is a Result of...
Preparation + Practice by knowing...

1. Your unit goals (standards to teach)

2. Each student individually as a reader
3. Your own reading strategies and those of great readers
Each Student Individually as a Reader Serravallo Checklist &
Focus on Hierarchy
1. Have they had good reading Engagement,
Accuracy,
experiences? and Fluency
2. What attitude do they have first

when they read?

3. What patterns are emerging
from their habits?

Determining
where to
start...
Whole Class Goal
● Using Grade Level Standards to
create units of study.
● List reading strategies students
will need to understand in order
to be successful.
● Narrow your focus on a strategy
or skill for whole class to focus
on.
● Observe each student’s ability to
use the strategy.
● Support students in this goal Anchor Chart for whole
Student Reading Goal class goal (RL.4.2)
through conferring. Bookmark
(whole class goal & personal
goal)
Accountability
● Students are in charge and
held accountable for using
their goals, both individual
and whole class throughout Students are to keep
independent reading. bookmark with them while
reading and tracking thinking
● Each student has a reading in connection to goal(s).
bookmark to refer back to.
● Different ways to share out
using goal (parking lot,
Google Classroom or
notebook reflection, musical
share, etc.)
 Targeted, Individualized Support by Planning...

1. Conferences with a variety of purposes

2. Flexible formats to confer with all students

3. Efficient tracking
The Collection
Tool
Conference Collection Tool

Double-sided:
1 per student
Example Conference

Video of conferring
with student and
notes that were
taken during this
time.
Example Conference

Video of conferring
with student. Notes
and checklist were
used.