Independent reading

Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

Students established expectations for independent reading

This introduction to independent reading will provide teacher tips and the tools needed to get started! Discover the benefits of independent reading time for kindergarten and 1st grade students. Learn how to set up reading workshop for independent reading and effective strategies to establish expectations for student accountability during literacy centers. These independent reading activities are guaranteed to keep students engaged and motivated to read!

Does your choice reading program feel stale? Freshen it up with these vibrant independent reading activities!

Blog Post for English Teachers: 15 Tips for Pulling off Independent Reading Programs (in Middle/ High School)

These are all the ideas the students came up with about what good readers look like during independent reading time. We also named him Roel thanks to my intern teacher!

This FREE reading response journal menu is a great tool for independent reading time, supporting comprehension skills, and keeping your students accountable during reading workshop. These reading response journal prompts are perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade.

Independent reading accountability is important. Read about some ways to support students with a clear structure without making them hate reading.

Independent reading is a favorite time of the day in my classroom! My students love finding a cozy place to read and get lost in their books. As the year goes

Giving students time to read in school in a low pressure, leisurely way is super important, because many kids have negative attitudes towards reading. This post provides 15 teacher tips for implementing an awesome independent reading program in your secondary classroom!

For independent reading to be an effective use of time, it is essential to set these clear expectations for students and yourself.

Make the most of independent reading time in your upper elementary or middle school classroom with easy to implement teaching methods and clear instructional goals. These silent reading tips and ideas are perfect for supporting and reinforcing independent reading skills in 4th, 5th, 6th, and middle school students! They will also work well for ELL and homeschool kids. Click to read more today! #SSR #ReadingCounts #NovelStudy via @literacyinfocus

Do you have students do anything while they read independently? Giving students a task to do while reading, like a reading response prompt or a way to organize and record their thinking (note-taking, annotating text, etc.), has great potential to help students grow as readers. Here are 5 keys to help get the most out of reading response tasks AND to avoid common pitfalls. (The Thinker Builder)

The Tower of Books Challenge is an independent reading challenge, great for a summer reading assignment or to replace that hum-drum reading log your students dread. An engaging format and tons of options! Read more about it in this blog post by The Thinker Builder.

8 Tips for Successful independent silent reading in elementary and middle school.

Teachers, are you looking for easy to implement and simple ways to hold your students accountable during independent reading during in Readers Workshop? Read my free tips and strategies to hold your kids accountable for what they read during small groups, book clubs, independent reading, silent reading, and any time they pick up a book! Help kids track as they read a variety of texts all year long. Ideas are perfect for upper elementary and middle school classes. Click to read more!

Teachers can make the most out of independent reading time in the classroom using these simple activities.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, students start with 10ish minutes of silent reading time. Students choose independent reading books from the library. Each year, my team has a discussion about how to hold students accountable for independent reading. Over the years, I've tried lots of different methods for holding students accountable and for limiting the amount of sleeping and fake reading. Some of my favorite methods include writing to respond, literary analysis stations, and presentations!

Are you looking for an activity to extend independent reading time in your Kindergarten or First Grade classroom? Read more about how I use these recording sheets to encourage my students to dive further into their understanding of words when reading their own independent reading text!