During my most recent grade level collaboration, a conversation of tracking student progress in order to set goals came up. I realized, amidst the school and grade level switch, I had forgotten to update my student portfolio forms and get them ready. Last year I had created documents to put in the portfolios, but I did it too late in the year to fully implement. I guess what I really did was some preparation for this year.
I have started to move away from guided reading and instead focus more on one-on-one reading conferences with all of my students. This has really helped me understand my readers so much better! When I meet with each child, I listen to them read their book of choice and make notes. After a few minutes, I stop to share my notes with the child. Then we review their individual CAFE menu and set a goal for our next meeting.
As part of our upcoming reading conferences, I will be reviewing each child's beginning-of-the-year DRA and SRI data. Together, we will graph their data and discuss what specific goals we can set in order to make progress for the mid-year testing.
I am so excited about these conferences and can't wait to share more information with you! Follow me on Twitter to see more of what my class is doing. I try and post every day or at least 3 times/week!
