Hello Everyone,
I need to know when you have your students read independently is there some
sort of authentic piece that they have to give
you so you know they are reading?
To make a long story short my third grade students are not allowed to read for
enjoyment. We are a Reading
First school. We have a 90 minute reading block: 30 minute whole group, 60
minutes small group and workstations.
We seem to pack our stations so the students can't independently read. They
follow a Must Do list that includes a practice
page and then their station, yes only 1 a day. I can't tell how much this
breaks my heart and I cannot go another year
developing kids who don't/can't read for pleasure in school.
So, this year I thought about breaking the kids up into 4 groups (Mon, Tues,
Wed, Thurs) . Each day students from a group would write me a short
letter in their notebook telling me about the book they are reading. They
could use the skill we're discussing in reading like
problem solution, or drawing conclusions, etc. Then I would write them back.
My classroom library is Lexile leveled so I know they would be reading
at their level.
Does anyone do something like this? Does this sounds like it would worthwhile
for the kids? I got in trouble last year because a struggle reader
was reading a poetry book during reading and it didn't have anything to do with
the skill we were on for the week. I don't want to go through that again.
Thanks for all your help and keep up the great work that you do!!
Cathleen
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