Today's session was about learning how to pick the right book for where our students are at. We also learned about how to correct or not correct or students and positively reinforce their efforts depending on their reading level. I was surprised that level A book readers are encouraged to substitute words and make good matches. I'm glad we had this session because my instinct would have been to correct at the time the error was made and encourage sounding out words because that's how I was corrected and taught to read. It seems that this method we discussed today, in the end produces more confident and creative readers. If they are encouraged at all points and corrected in such a way that they do not feel inadequate or dumb but rather like partners with their teachers, I think it's a good thing.

When our group broke up to review and level our books we did a good job! We even found an error on the TC label which had a D book labeled as an A book. Joe Yukish confirmed that we were right in our assessment!