To Know and Nurture a Reader

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Conferring with Confidence and Joy

By Kari Yates and Christina Nosek

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To Know and Nurture a Reader by Kari Yates and Christina Nosek offers a practical, student-centred approach to conferring about reading. The authors provide step-by-step guidance designed to make one-on-one teaching manageable and joyful, despite classroom challenges. Included are reproducible planning tools, guiding questions, vivid classroom vignettes, and video examples, all aimed at helping teachers develop confidence in nurturing young readers.
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This book is ideal for educators seeking accessible strategies to enhance reading instruction through meaningful, individual conferences with students. It suits teachers looking for practical tools to implement effective, joyful reading support in diverse classroom settings.

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.

Description

Conferring with students about reading allows for clearer access to one-on-one, in-the-moment teaching and learning. Despite its benefits, it can feel intimidating or overwhelming. Kari Yates and Christina Nosek are here to help. They provide practical, reflective, student-centred teaching moves that you can use to develop an intentional, joy-filled conferring practice.

To Know and Nurture a Reader: Conferring with Confidence and Joy is a get-going guide to conferring. The book includes step-by-step guidance considerate of time and other classroom challenges, as well as:

Numerous tools such as guiding questions, reproducible planning, and note-taking documents;

Classroom vignettes that pull you close to a reader and teacher in a conference setting;

Video clips of classroom conferences to show what conferring looks like in action.

The book breaks conferring into manageable chunks with specific goals for knowing and nurturing young readers, then puts all the pieces together with various classroom scenarios and examples. The tools, examples, and ideas in this book make conferring something every teacher can do right away and master with continued effort and practice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781625311726

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 July 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Stenhouse Publishers

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 187.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 470g

Pages: 256

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Christina Nosek Education & Reference Kari Yates Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.