Choice and Conferencing

This week in class, we will be working on successfully setting up our Daily 5 folders (where your passport for keeping track of your activities and Working with Words work is kept) and actually practising three rotations of Read to Self, Read to Someone and Word Work.  

Once we have successfully done three full rotations as a class, and a second class of three rotations where I put you in selected groups to go through the three rotations, you will be allowed choice, and hopefully, I will begin conferencing.

When I call you to conference, I will be asking about your strengths as a reader and what you want to work on this year.  This will help to direct our conference time better.  Please start thinking about who you are as a reader and what you need to work on to become an even better reader.

After a handful of successful classes of choice and conferencing, introduction of Listening to Reading and Work on Writing will take place, followed by Writers Workshop where you will begin your first writing piece.