CAFE - Holding a Student Accountable for Reading (VIDEO)
Do you find that your older students or your reluctant readers of any age are frequently abandoning books? Pam, a sixth grade teacher shows us one way to address this situation with her student Artur. Pam confers with Artur about his goal of reading twenty minutes each night and logging in details about his reading. After he shares many of his reasons for not reading for twenty minutes, Pam gets to the heart of the issue, he continues to abandon books. She sets the expectation that Artur will get a book and she will be meeting with him in two days, and he will share the details he will have written. She ends the conference with a bit of an exclamation. She tells Artur she is writing their conference appointment down in pen. She will be checking in with him soon. This kind, respectful, supportive, and to the point conference is laden with high accountability. Her positive assumptions for Artur that he will get a book, he will read and he will write details to be shared when next they meet, greatly increase his chances of success.
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