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

1st Edition

To Know and Nurture a Reader Conferring with Confidence and Joy

By Kari Yates, Christina Nosek Copyright 2018
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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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 Reader:... Read more
Introduction Conferring with Courage and Commitment; Part 1: Interactive Moves; 1: Wonder: Bringing Curiosity and an open mind to Every Conference; 2: Affirm: Celebrating Effort, Strategy, and Emerging Work; 3: Extend: Nudging Readers Forward; 4: Remind: Ensuring Transfer Beyond this Conference; Part 2: Intentional Directions; 5: Confer to Support Book Choice; 6: Confer to Develop Healthy Habits; 7: Confer to Strengthen Strategic Process; 8: Confer to Support Authentic Response; Part 3: Organizational Moves; 9: Gather Materials: Getting ready for Teaching and Learning on the go; 10: Make a Plan: Creating time to Confer with all Students; 11: Take Note: Holding on to thinking to help pave the path ahead; Putting it all together

Biography

Kari Yates is an author, speaker, consultant, and staff developer with a passion for helping busy literacy educators thrive. Her experiences include classroom teacher, special education, Reading Recovery teacher, elementary school principal, and district literacy coordinator. Kari is also the author of Simple Starts: Making the Move to a Reader-Centered Classroom (Heinemann, 2015). Christina Nosek has been making a difference in elementary education for nearly 20 years. During that time, she’s experienced the classroom from many sides including classroom teacher, literacy coach, staff developer, reading specialist, and special education aide. She is currently teaching fifth grade in the San Francisco Bay Area while also working on writing projects and consulting.

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