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Conferring with ELLsAnne Marie Chobot
Michelle LopezMary Shenouda
Community Consolidated School District 146 (CCSD146)www.district146.org
Conferring Tech ToolsConfer App
Evernote App
Andrea Example of Notes in CONFER app for Reading
Andrea is a first grade student exceeding grade level expectations by fluently reading text at Level J in September.
Andrea is taking hertime to think and understand text which is indicative of double processing for English Language Learners.
Instructional Level Expectations for Reading
http://www.heinemann.com/fountasandpinnell/handouts/InstructionalLevelExpectationsForReading.pdf
Helpful Language for Conferences Video Example
EVERNOTEFor everything you’ll do, Evernote is the workspace to get it done.
https://evernote.com/
Shubh example of notes in EVERNOTE app for WritingR.I.P. Notes from Evernote
• R: reading his own illustrations
• I: when cued to touch words as he reads, he can read his own words
w/o cue he turns to oral retell• P: model using sentence stem from
anchor chart to initiate his own lead continue to work on understanding of
when & where questions
Audio Recordings from Evernote
Photos of Writing from Evernote
Setting Lead (Starting with a WHERE?) Evidence of Sequence of Events (Page 3)
Teaching and Learning Blog
• Blog: Teaching and Learning by Tina Cassidy is the Coordinator of Primary Education for the Medina City Schools
• "When you know better, you do better." Maya Angelou
• https://teachingandlearningthoughts.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/reading-conferences-and-evernote/
Conferring RoutinesPatrick A. Allen “RIP”
Jennifer Serevallo “RDT”
Patrick A. Allen on Conferring• “Learning to confer and to confer well is an
ongoing process. It takes time. I started by being nudged by someone I trusted, and then started to watch others confer, and then I started recording my own conferences to listen to the types of conversations that develop…think about the best conversations you’ve had with a fellow reader and try to replicate them.” –Patrick Allen –
• See more at: http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2009/12/10/conferring-in-reading-and-writing-workshop/#sthash.6cJYL06D.dpuf
R.I.P. Conferring Routine
Review
Read Aloud & Record
“I & P”Instruction, Insights, Intrigue• Words Estiven paused to work on when
reading:severe, aspirins, you’ll
• I noticed when Estiven was reading, he read with expression when he read “please lady”
• Reading sounded like talking between the quotation marks
Plan, Progress, Purpose• Plan: Prepare a mini lesson on reading
contractions (use contraction slides)
Prepare a bridge lesson onUniversals (How do we say aspirin in
Arabic/English?)
• Progress: Estiven has been working on reading with expression. I hear progress in his voice. This is good!
PurposeIn student language, the students write their own reading goals.
10/5 Student’s goal after mini lesson on using context clues: “I will go back and look if I don’t understand a word.”
10/19 Student’s goals after mini lesson on reading expression: “I will open my mouth and read clearly.Slow down when I’m reading.”
Conferring always has a clear purpose and predictable structure.
One of the purposes is to set reading goals. Patrick A. Allen calls these goals “Conferring Walk-Aways.”
Research-Decide-Teach Conferring Routine • http://www.heinemann.com/shared/studyGuides/E01101/studyGuide.pdf
Conferring Notetaking
Date: Compliments I Could Give the Reader What I Could Teach the Reader
Reasons to Use Conferring to Help Students Move to the Next Level –Jennifer Serravallo
■ Many students need instruction on how to read more difficult text. ■ The strategy instruction that students need is different depending on
the strategies the readers are already able to do. ■ While many of the skills a reader uses will be the same from one
level to the next, the reader will need new strategies and will need to know when to use them in the context of the new level.
■ At higher reading levels, students often need strategy instruction or introduction of concepts or time periods rather than book introductions that give away the entire plot.
Other resources used to inform our Literacy Studio Model:• http://www.heinemann.com/authors/331.aspx
Other resources used to inform our literacy instruction for ELLs:• http://www.heinemann.com/products/E00860.aspx
• http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02264.aspx
Fountas & Pinnell Website• http://www.fountasandpinnellleveledbooks.com/