For years I have been looking for and trying to create a conference log that would work for me and my students. Each year I try a new version, but it's never quite right. This year I feel like I've finally got it!

I created a heading that would give me quick "at-a-glance" info on each child. I added the category of "iReady Area of Focus" because that is the assessment data my district uses, but the title can be changed to mirror the system your district uses. I also created a second page to use in between updated diagnostic scores (we only do a formal assessment in reading three times a year in my district.) This way I will always have the student's latest scores on hand.

I also thought long and hard about exactly what information I want to get from meeting with a student individually. For me, I want to track their rate and volume of reading, their fluency, and their comprehension. I noticed that the notes I usually made while conferring with a student were comments on their fluency and their ability to retell a section as a sign of their understanding of what they're reading, so that is what I tried to build into this log.

I hope that teachers will find this very useful and help to streamline and focus conversations with students.

Included are a Google Sheet file with three tabs. One tab is the page with the heading, one tab is the page without the heading, and one page has a sample of how I would use this resource with a student.