Starting with the first few days of school, we've been working on building up our stamina during independent reading time. We began with 3 minutes and now we are up to about 7 minutes, it's all about leaving them wanting more reading time!
Before each reading time, I explain and model a strategy for reading. We talk about things like what to do when you come across a word that you don't know and what to do if you don't know any words in a story. We will soon talk about how to pick the right book that are not too easy and not too hard.
For now, I've been dropping books in their book boxes that everyone can read. These are books that I intro with the class first and we practice reading them together. They are filled with our sight words, predictable patterns, and picture clues to help with unknown words. This ensures that each student is able to read a book completely independently word for word during reading time. The most popular ones we've been reading are from the Trucktown series, they beg me for new Trucktown books!
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