What do you use for keeping anecdotal records focused on kids reading?
What do you use for keeping anecdotal records focused on kids reading?
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What do you use for keeping anecdotal records focused on kids reading?
I have my confer sheets where I just jot down a few thoughts, I would love to hear what others use
I use something I made.
One of my fifth grade teachers (I am an instructional coach) uses the little spiral memo notepads. She has one for each student. So simple, but I had never seen this and think it is a great idea! Easy to take wherever they are reading. Since seeing how well they work for her, I have suggested this to a couple of others who have asked a good way to keep conferring notes about each student.
I use Google docs and a Chromebook so I can share the documents with co-teachers. Trying to focus more on the kids-less on the notes but with 130 or so kids a day a few notes help to keep up with them.
What’s great about this is you can easily copy and paste comments into report cards. For younger students, the parents loved this.
I made documents with TCRWP learning progressions and a space for goals and conferring notes. Each child has a page. Then a made a “summary sheet” that has all their names on it. I jot the big ideas from our conference so I can see the class as a whole and make better decisions about strategy groups.
I just saw someone using a recipe box and put notes on index cards.
Post its in a folder work well too. I arrange one post it per kid, and can arrange it by seating to keep track of who I need to check in with. The post it helps me keep my notes simple. I have a separate sheet to keep track of page numbers and reading rates – I have the kids fill that out.
I a page of labels so I can eventually place them on a single sheet for each child.