To Know and Nurture a Reader: Conferring with Confidence and Joy

by Kari Yates, Christina Nosek

Conferring with students about reading allows for clearer access to one-on-one, in-the-moment teaching and learning, yet it can feel intimidating or overwhelming. Kari Yates and Christina Nosek want to help. Here they have provided practical, reflective, student-centered teaching moves that you can use to develop an intentional, joy-filled conferring practice.To Know and Nurture a Conferring with Confidence and Joy is a get-going guide to conferring. The book includes step-by-step guidance that is also considerate of time and other classroom challenges, as well The book breaks conferring into manageable chunks with specific goals for knowing and nurturing young readers, then puts all the pieces together with various classroom scenarios and examples. The tools, examples, and ideas in this book make conferring something every teacher can do right away and master with continued effort and practice.

Genres: Education

256 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2018

Reviews

[Katie Ghione · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is probably the only academic book I’ve willingly read. This was just what I needed to be able to confer with my students about their reading habits.

[Heather Wall · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great, basic book for any teacher - Kindergarten and higher - who wants to begin reading conferences or who is struggling with the big picture of the how and why of reading conferences.

[Fran · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book will allow you to increase your conferring competence and confidence!

Habits, not specific skills, keep students reading for life. This book and these authors give you practical tips for reading conferences that will encourage and sustain readers for LIFE!