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Independent Reading: Goal Setting and Assignments

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Independent reading assessments are always tricky: you want students to read something they enjoy, at their reading level and at their own pace. How, then, do you assess them when they are all over the place? How can you give an assignment when some have finished three books, while several are struggling to get through one?

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In material written at the student's independent level, the students should encounter no more than three or four unknown words in a hundred and should enjoy nearly total comprehension.

Books that fall within students' independent level include those student choose to read for pleasure and textbooks they use independently for homework.

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- Affixing sticky notes to their books
- Keeping a log in which they record their observations of informational text features
- Attaching large sticky notes with informational book reviews to leave for other classmates who read the same book.

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Standard Area - CC.1.2:
Reading Informational Text:
Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.

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Balanced Reading Program

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During reading, all students are actively applying the strategy taught in the mini-lesson with high levels of accountability.

Teaching conferences are conducted individually. They are brief but focused opportunities for the teacher to gather a running record, listen to a retell, discuss informational strategies the reader is using well, or to teach a strategy the learner is not yet using.

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Setting up Your Independent Reading Routines

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If you establish a classroom culture where books and independent reading are a priority, engaged reading will follow. Here's what you need to consider as you establish routines in your classroom.

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Inferring and example of Independent Reading

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Students use emojis during independent reading to infer how a character feels by what they look like, what they say, and how they act.

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