▸Confer with Individual Students –Circulate around the room and sit beside a student you select for a conference. The goal of conferring is to listen to a student's responses to a book and to promote further thinking. During the conference, you may listen to a student read aloud, teach for specific strategic actions, talk about an entry the student make in a reader's notebook, and more. The conference enables you to understand how a reader is processing a text and provide customized instruction that will help the individual student refine and extend his reading competencies.

▸Students Read Independently – Students choose the book(s) they want to read. They then read silently or, for emergent readers, very softly. Students also write and draw about their treading in a reader's notebook.