![]() That is where Evernote can help! Evernote is a free app for iPhone or iPad that helps to organize notes of all kinds, but it can be especially useful in conferencing. The trick is to organize the information you have gained so that it is easily transferrable to your instruction. What did you notice about the strategies that readers were using? Were they all using the same ones? Did they all struggle in the same areas? Which students needed which specific skills to be better readers? Using the information that you can glean from reading conferences can help you set up the rest of your reading instruction: whole group, small strategy groups, or guided reading. The 5-7 minutes that you spend with each student is a valuable time for individualized feedback on a student’s performance.Ĭonferences can also be good feedback for you on how the class is doing as a whole. You watch the reader at work and then choose one specific thing that would help them be even stronger readers in the future. They are a time to sit with a student one-one and find out exactly what strategies are being used to decipher and comprehend text. There are many ways to keep conference notes digitally! Click here to see my post on using Google!Ĭonferences in reading are individualized teaching opportunities.
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