Teacher’s Toolkit March 31, 2025
Part 4: Getting Better at Conferring, Years 3-6
Sharon concludes by addressing punctuation challenges with Year 4 students, using the protocol’s fluency rubric to provide specific language for strategy development. She reassures teachers that even brief, focused conferences make significant differences in students’ reading development. These conferences inform whole-class instruction when common issues emerge across students. The process teaches students to identify problems, apply strategies, and self-regulate their reading. By recording strategy goals on Reading Calendars and Anchor Charts, students develop into strategic readers who know which techniques to apply with increasingly complex texts throughout their critical Years 3-6 development.
