One-on-one student conferences to coach and assess

100 Book Challenge systems provides an on-the-job reading specialist course for teachers to learn to teach reading in the context of their daily work. During the independent reading segment of the Readers’ Workshop, teachers conduct one-on-one conferences with students and maintain detailed notes of students’ strengths and needs in a Conference Notebook containing a separate section for each student.

Teachers learn to focus on the “Zone of Self-Improvement”, using an Assessment Map to collect data as a child reads. In the Zone of Self-Improvement, the teacher records self-corrections, problem-solving strategies, and repair strategies the student applies without any prompting or support from the teacher.