| Summary: | While reading Debbie Miller's book, Reading with meaning, or viewing her Happy reading! video series, one wonders at Debbie's ability to orchestrate a buzzing classroom full of first-graders into a cooperative literacy community. The Joy of Conferring lets us focus in with Debbie and see what happens at the individual level as she conducts reading conferences with her students. About the author: Debbie Miller taught and learned from children in the Denver public schools for thirty years. Author of Reading with meaning: teaching comprehension in the primary grades, (Stenhouse, 2002) and the video series, Happy reading! and the joy of conferring, Debbie now presents workshops and works extensively with schools and districts on long-range planning and development of literacy programs.
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