During frequent individual conferences with students, teachers:

• Collect information about the students’ attitudes and interests as readers;  their comprehension and ability to self-monitor; and their reading strategies and skills as defined by the level of text complexity.

• Identify one or two teaching points for focus, considering previous observations and reading conferences that support the reader’s in the current independent level text.

• Teach to the teaching points by demonstrating, providing guided practice, or by supporting independent efforts, grounding the re-teach in a mentor text and the anchor chart.

• Determine next steps with students and together set rigorous, specific, attainable goals

• Consistently follow up and follow through building from one conference to the next.

• Uses conferencing data to identify trend data that is then used to plan mini-lessons, small group instruction and future conference plans.

 

Link the conference and the goals to students’ IEP goals