Practical Pedagogs

Building a relationship with each student is essential to creating a productive and safe classroom environment. This ready-to-use survey will help you get to know your students, so you can set up a student-centered classroom in which all students thrive as readers and writers.

Talking with students about the books they are reading is a great way to connect, assess, and build rapport. Using a conference assessment tool keeps those conversations targeted and aligned with standards, yet still allow for organic discussion.This is a rubric to be used early in your conferencing, as its focus is book selection, genre identification, identifying plot events and explaining how they influence future action.