LOOKING AT INDIVIDUAL STUDENT READING

Your NAME:_____Hannah Jones____ Focal Child: _______Elbie Sowles______ DATE:______3/22/2021____

RESEARCH and NAME

GOING WELL (name it) QUESTIONS for READER

● Persevered to figure out unknown words ● What strategies are you using when you come across
○ Used a lot of strategies to figure out unknown unfamiliar words?
words ● Do you see any words in this [unfamiliar] word that you
● Remembers what he has learned about already know?
● Uses words that makes sense when trying to figure out ● What do the letters “be” spell? What do the letters “for”
unknown words spell?
○ Uses context clues to look at words around it ● Does that make sense right there?
● Naturally uses several strategies at once

(DECIDE
READING AREAS TO GROW: Strategy/Decoding Concerns

Goal: Elbie will have meaning making strategies for making ● Reads slowly for accuracy
sense of the high interest books that he reads. ● Sounding out unknown words
● Uses context clues

TEACH

Adapted from: Bomer, K. (2010) Hidden Gems: Naming and Teaching the Brilliance in Every Student’s Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
CONFERENCE IN FUTURE

What will you teach? How will you teach it? I would focus more on the strategy I taught today. It was only
I will teach Elbie to look for familiar words within unknown briefly covered, so I’d like to spend some more time on it and
words. I will teach this when he comes to an unfamiliar word, allow Elbie to have more practice with it.
and introduce it by asking, “Do you see any words in this word
that you already know?” Then we will figure out the unknown
word together, and I will ask him if it was easier to use that
strategy than to sound out each word. Then I will ask him to try
out that strategy on the next word he doesn’t know.

Adapted from: Bomer, K. (2010) Hidden Gems: Naming and Teaching the Brilliance in Every Student’s Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.