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Complete the following: (1) Collect baseline data on student engagement during independent reading time for comparison after you've incorporated new strategies. (2) Determine what roadblocks to exist in your classroom and address them, including issues with: stamina, comprehension, selecting good-fit books, identity as a reader, etc. (3) Design options for independent reading that are interesting and intrinsically motivating for your students. (4) Create classroom “buzz” and excitement around reading. Don't Forget about adding Collaboration Resources: |
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Complete the following: (1) Match readers with high-interest, “just right” books. (2) Teach students how to effectively navigate the school/public libraries to find books they like. (3) Analyze daily schedules to squeeze out every minute available for independent reading. (4) Develop a system of peer book reviews and recommendations to motivate students to read without using extrinsic incentives. Don't Forget about adding Collaboration Resources: |
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Complete the following: (1) Design interventions for specific students in your classroom as needed when identified by assessment results. (2) Determine how interventions can be reasonably incorporated into your classroom routine and supported by individual students’ independent reading tasks. (3) Coordinate with all team members involved with individual students including Title I, Special Education teachers. (4) Monitor interventions to ensure they are effective. (5) Revise interventions as needed in response to student growth data. Don't Forget about adding Collaboration Resources: |
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Complete the following: (1) Develop a system of record keeping that allows the teacher to use conferring notes as authentic assessment. (2) Refine individual conferring sessions to last between 3-5 minutes (or other target set by the classroom teacher) in order to meet with as many students as possible. (3) Align the focus of individual conferences with the focus skill addressed in whole group instruction. (4) Incorporate independent reading time/conferring into the regular schedule. Don't Forget about adding Collaboration Resources: |
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CHOOSE YOUR OWN TASK Design your own task that includes inquiry into new learning resulting in a change in practice, reflect on the new practice, and in some form or another share beyond the classroom. Don't Forget about adding Collaboration |