Atthe beginning of the year, it is all about building reading stamina. Each class in unique and I have to adjust this every year depending on the students. For most classes, I begin by having my students read independently for about 10-15 minutes. We slowly build up to about 40-45 minutes. As part of my introduction to reading workshop at the beginning of the year, I am *VERY* clear about my expectations during reading time. I find if I do not have these expectations, they simply are not reading.
Examples of clear expectations I teach my students from the first week of school:
*There is no moving around the room- when you choose your spot, you are there until the end of reading time.
*If you are distracting other readers, then you will be moved away from them.
My third grade students used to write reading response letters every week, or every other week, to demonstrate their understanding of the story in our basal. Since my district now uses Benchmark Literacy, I do not use reading response letters anymore as part of an assessment. However, the reading response letters were a really effective way to assess a students reading comprehension of the text, and also their writing/grammar skills. I did grade those every week, using a reading response rubric.
When I am finished working with one group of readers, I then take another walk around the room and monitor my students. Who needs help? Who has not started to write anything yet? Who needs a reminder?
I then work with another group of readers or conference with students. I often call struggling students to the back table when I am conferencing with individual students. I find that just my presence helps keep them accountable. Smile
My students are not allowed to go to closing unless they completed their writing. They WANT and LOVE to go to closing because they get to talk with their reading partner about what they were reading/what they wrote in their notebooks. If they rushed or did not complete their response, they either work with me at the back table or continue to write more at the end of the day, right before we pack up.
Good question! Both!
If we are trying to identify the theme, I write questions or sentence stem on the Smartboard that help them identify the developing theme of a story. The questions that I put on the Smartboard are guiding the students in their responses.
By taking the time to read through their responses and using the notebooks as a tool during guided reading groups, I have found that this helps keeps kids accountable and write meaningful responses. They KNOW I will be checking/reading their work.
Creating a classroom community of engaged and independent readers starts from day one of the school year! I created 26 different graphic organizers and a free reading response journal to inspire your readers!
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Getting students to write about reading was a struggle for a LONG TIME! I tried all sorts of approaches, all types of reading response journals and notebooks, and yet it still felt so forced. This year, things have changed!
Then, I took a picture of each student holding up their favorite book with our classroom library in the background (just like the one of myself pictured below). In Powerpoint or Keynote, simply split your 8.511 slide down the middle to create space for two labels. Add a text box to personalize students names, and then drag in your photos.
For some students, they may start the year completing the first page of the spread. For others, they may feel comfortable moving onto page two from the beginning. Both are OKAY! My goal is to get students to have meaningful conversations about books with one another. Both pages will support those conversations.
As students feel more and more confident in their abilities, and I am able to better understand how to support their individual needs, I hope all of my second graders will at least attempt the letter writing component.
Finally, at the request of my students, I included a personal word wall. I will TRY and get an editable version of this set up for folks in the near future, as I anticipate this being something you prefer to personalize to meet the needs of your classroom!
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this. One question I have is how many copies of the Reader Response pages would you suggest putting in for the year? I know I could put this in a binder for easy access to add more papers, but the spiralbound is so much better!
A year ago, I shared a digital reading notebook that I would be using with my 7th graders as I prepared for a year of pandemic teaching. The work we normally did by hand would need to find a home digitally as I had no idea just how long I would be teaching virtually, and so I created a collection of tools for students to use in order to continue our work furthering and centering their identity as readers, even as we were far apart.
I did update the tool in September of last year as students started using it to streamline it a bit. Here is the updated version. It streamlined some of the pages and cut down the size a bit which helped a lot. I still love the tool, just wish there was a way to use it without it clogging down their computers.
However, the work within the pages will still be going on in 7th grade. Everything within this notebook is important to the work we do as we dive into our reading identities and how the emotions and experiences we carry surrounding that shapes the decisions we make with our reading lives. I will just go back to stand alone forms, gathered in their notebooks or in my binder depending on the purpose of it, to do the work.
So where can you find some of these forms as a stand alone form? Their to-be-read list is just the first few pages in their notebook, they write down author, title, and genre so that they can find the book later. I usually have them set aside 4 pages for this. Others can be found via the links below.
As I dream about the school year to come, I am excited to continue our work surrounding reading identity and hopefully help students protect or cement a positive relationship to reading. I have seen the difference this work does, I have seen it impact kids in thoughtful ways as they start to understand and work with the experiences they have had as a readers and chart new courses. Not just because of these forms or the survey questions I ask, but because of the conversations and subsequent actions that they lead to.
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