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Meaningful Reading Conferences
Christy Rush-Levine takes you into her middle school classroom and shares the strategies and techniques she uses with her students to deepen their reflection and understanding of books while conferring. (Course created in 2018.)
Instructor
Christy Rush-Levine
Christy Rush-Levine has been a middle school language arts teacher since 2000, a Choice Literacy contributor since 2014, and a college instructor since 2017. She lives and works in a suburb of Chicago. Christy blogs at interstice: not the lines; the spaces between. She can be found on Twitter (@CRushLevine) and Instagram (@rushreads and @rushcl).
Curriculum
Meaningful Reading Conferences: Introduction
Christy offers an overview of the four-step reading conference.
Meaningful Reading Conferences: Launching the Year
Christy shares how she establishes a culture of reflective reading.
Meaningful Reading Conferences: Whole-Group Instruction
Christy leads us to consider the way whole group instruction empowers meaningful reading conferences.
Meaningful Reading Conferences: Individual Instruction
Christy guides us in supporting student written response to texts.
Meaningful Reading Conferences: Supporting Student Ownership
Christy explains ways to support student ownership, including book talks and To Be Read lists.
Meaningful Reading Conferences: Classroom Library
Christy explains the importance of a classroom library. Stocking and maintaining a classroom library is a foundation to having meaningful reading conferences.
