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Avery Labels for Conference Notes

I want to share with you how I take notes when I meet with my students during Reader’s Workshop.  I used to carry around a large binder (think 3 inches wide), but it was too bulky!  I felt that it got in the way of my conference.  And, if I was meeting with a group of students, I was constantly flipping the pages back and forth.

Insert my bright idea:

I use Avery labels on a clipboard!  So easy to carry around.  I use the large shipping labels since there is more room to write on.

When I was teaching second grade, I used to print  fill-in-the blanks sections on each label.  This made it easy to fill it in as I conference with my students.

Now that I am in fifth grade, I print just the students names on the label and lines to write on (I need lines!).  Having the student names on the labels make it easy to see at a quick glance which students I have met with that week and which ones I still need to conference with.

After I finish my conferences for the day, I place them in the student’s folder.  This way I have all their information together in one place.  I can easily pull it out during conferences to share information with their parents.  The labels could also be place on individual pages in a binder.

I hope you found this helpful!  Using Avery labels is definitely one of my favorite classroom tricks.

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