In part four of Big Impact Reading Conferences: 5 Minute Wonders, Christy guides us in supporting student written response to texts.
After viewing the keynote session, take time to check out the resources, articles, and additional videos. You can reach out to Christy on Twitter (@crushlevine) and share your insights or ask questions by tagging your posts with #choiceliteracycourses.
Christy Rush-Levine integrates reading responses into her preparation for reading conferences, and then uses the responses as a tool to build goals and insights within the conference.
Suzy Kaback catches a young learner near and dear to her in the process of plagiarizing. She uses the experience to develop a template to help students and colleagues with notetaking.
As more intermediate classrooms become departmentalized, grades 4-6 teachers find they are dealing with 80 or more reading response logs instead of 25-30 each week. Katherine Sokolowski tackles the issue of providing personal response to readers and still having time for everything else.
Matt Renwick is surprised when his son completes a reading quiz that isn’t required, and finally realizes it’s all about reading response.
Videos
Characters, Choices and Graphic Novels: A Conference with Nia
Christy Rush-Levine confers with Nia over the graphic novel she is reading. They discuss the choices characters make.
Close Attention and Reading Response: A Conference with Tori
Christy Rush-Levine confers with eighth grader Tori about her reading response to Why We Broke Up. She encourages Tori to make connections between the characters in her current book and her previous reading by paying close attention to surprising action.
Keeping Track of Characters: A Conference with Edith
Christy Ruth-Levine confers with Edith, who is tracking character changes in the novel Room.
Student Notes: Keeping Track of Characters
Tre uses lots of sticky notes to sort through and keep track of characters in a book with a whole classroom full of personalities.
Student Notes: Slow Down and Think
Fifth-grader Orion uses sticky notes to make questions and predictions at the end of each chapter.
