Weekly Reading Recording/Conference Sheets: Date:______
Student Name: / Book Title / Mon. / Tue. / Wed. / Thu. / Fri. / Total Pages for the week:Student Daily Reading Log: Please fill in your name book title and how many pages you read today.
Calculate Reading Rate:
(Confidential between teacher and student kept in students’ personal notebook)
Pages per week:
# of pages read over 10 min x 6 = ______x 2 =______Your Goal for the week!!
Books a year:
# of pages read over 10 min x 6 = ______x 2 =______x 34 weeks a year = ______/ 200 (pages in a book) = ______# of books possible to read in a year!
Example:
9 x 6 = 54 x 2 = 108 (pages/week) x 34 = 3672 (pages/year) / 200 (pages/book) =
18. 36 books a year!
Ideal: (Kittle, p. 23)
Students should be reading 25 books a year for a total of 175 to 200 books through grades 6-12.
Conference Planning Record: Teacher Goal of meeting for 3-4 min each student during silent reading period or at other convenient times throughout the day.
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Notes:
Anecdotal Conferring Record
Student: ______Book Title:______
Conference Notes: (use ‘possible conference questions as a guide’ pg. 80-85)“Listening, probing, and responding is at the heart of the conference, it tells me not only what is understood but how the student makes sense of the text”(Kittle, 2013, pg. 88).
Possible Conference Questions: (p. 80-85) (Add in your own questions as well. These are just for departure.)
Conferences that monitor a reading life (p.80)- What are you reading? How did you choose it? How do you find good books?
- What’s on your next to read list?
- How much did you read last year?
- Do you consider yourself a reader? Where do you read at home?
Conferences that teach a strategy (p. 82)
- How is the reading going for you?
- I this an easy or a hard read for you? How do you know? Tell me about a time when this book has confused you and what you’ve done to get yourself back on track in your understanding.
- Tell me about these characters –who are they, what do you think of them?
- What questions are at the heart of this book? What questions might the author be trying to answer through the struggle so these characters?
- I see you’re almost finished with the book. When you think back over a way a character has changed in this story, can you point to specific moments when something was revealed about this character? Could you make a claim about this character and support it with evidence from the text?
- How is this book different from the last book you read?
Conferences that increase complexity and challenge (p. 84)
- What else have you read by this author? What other books have you read that are as difficult as this one?
- Which books on you next list are challenging? Have you considered how to push yourself as a reader?
- Which genres have you read this year? Tell me about a genre you don’t usually read and let’s think about books that might ease the transition from what you love to what will challenge you to think differently?
- Tell me about a book you’ve dropped this year. Why did you drop it?
- How are the books you’ve been reading this year similar?