Tr: I’m not sure.
T: I’ll meet with you again on Wednesday or Thursday.
[PN: Does the student have a sense of what to do now? I wonder how effective the
Post-it reminder will be.]
The teacher calls Braden to the table to confer. They meet briefly to talk about the genre of his book and the connections he has made. He is able to articulate text to self and text to text connections. He explains that the book is a fantasy and so he was unable to make any world connections since it was set in a fake land. The conference wraps up after 3 minutes.
[PN: shorter conference – seems to be a proficient reader who is grasping the strategy and applying it. I wonder how/if she will use conferences as a means to enrich students.]
[TN: Appropriation? Was there an earlier conference where the teacher worked with him on connections?]
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