Read 180

Read 180 "Browser" Notebooks Today was our last minimum day of . So, it seemed like a good time to go through the Read 180 pages that I had been working on and put one of the notebooks together. As usual, my goal to work the kinks out of ONE quickly evolved into ALL. I used simple 1 inch notebooks, and ended up using about nine of them. Driving to work this morning, I had one of those brilliant flashes of genius and decided to combine the Graphic Organizers and Quickwrites for each book in…

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Starting Interactive Notebooks was daunting, to say the least! Starting Interactive Notebooks with a Read 180 class...well, let's just say that there was definitely a big daunting learning curve. However, midway through the 2nd quarter, I have to say that I am unbelievably proud of our notebooks! Which is why I am linking up with Erin of I'm Lovin' Lit for her Interactive Throw Down Linky to POSITIVELY BRAG about MY STUDENTS! Just in case you are not familiar with Read 180, it is a…

Read 180 Workshop student reminder board to refer to throughout the workshop. I made posters like it to hang up in my classroom after our workshop is done and I wipe the whiteboard clean. The solid boxes with checkmarks help with pacing and showing progression through the workshop. The dashed boxes are for checkpoints/conferences with students.

I have always assigned nightly reading. Why? I don't assign nightly reading because I want to give students "reading homework." I don't assign nightly reading

Read 180, Writing, Exceptional Children, Special Education

Lexile Levels by Grade~a GREAT tool to have when explaining book levels to parents!!

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A Brief blurb from Dr Jan Richardson' s website. Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is a literacy consultant and author who earned her Ph.D. studying struggling readers. She has been a classroom teacher,...

Going to modify a bit but I like the idea...Read 180 Daily Procedures

Exit slips are a great way to quickly assess your students on reading skills and standards that you are teaching. Grab free reading exit slips on this post.

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I have made a concerted effort to get away from reading logs in my classroom. I know, I know. So many people use them and love them, but honestly, I just didn't. Years ago, I did get away from the "mom sign this" reading log by creating a more content based log (that I still use as in class assignments) but that just wasn't working for my students anymore. Tracking them down on a daily basis to see if they did their reading wasn't creating readers and it wasn't making me very happy as a…

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Real reading versus fake reading

Lexile Growth Chart

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hold students accountable while they independently read with these easy to implement reading tips and tricks and strategies

Elementary teaching ideas and resources.

Reading level measurements aren't perfect and neither are the conversions but as a general guide, it's a handy tool to keep around.