Main Questions about Independent Reading: (full show notes here)
Is there a place for independent reading in the classroom? If so, what does it look like?
Independent Reading Is:
- Intentional, purposeful reading
- Tailored to each specific student and their needs
- Looks different on each reader based upon their level
- Within a student's range of skills
- Sitting with a decodable!
- Dinner with a little dessert (see below)
Independent Reading Is NOT:
- The age-old direction of "Drop Everything and Read"
- Reading alongside students and modeling reading for them at your desk
- Showing your students how much YOU love reading by reading a book yourself
- Sustained and silent
- Strictly timed
- A substitution for what we are doing in our small group time
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