Conferring is the single most important part of the instructional day filled with individualized student instruction and differentiation

When students are comfortable and prepared for their own independent reading, they will grow as readers and their interests will expand.

You want to assess their progress and track their growth. You probably already have the 'data'. You just have to find and assemble

Assessing reading progress and tracking growth means getting to know your readers AND readers seeing themselves as readers in their own work

Just as we build a community of readers in reading we must do the same in Writing. We have to share the kind of writer we are so students w

When you think about what your readers need and what your readers have already accomplished, you can begin to build a path that will lead them through increasingly more complex texts. Readers enter classrooms with unique and specific needs. Readers must be met where they are not where a grade level standard says they should be. Readers need tools and strategies to help them move forward on their path towards reading proficiency. Readers need guidance to help them progre

Readers need guidance in finding answers for their many wonderings. Readers need nonfiction reading and research skills.

Readers are naturally filled with questions about topics they are interested in and are led to read nonfiction texts to find answers

Readers change and evolve! Every reader has a unique reading identity that evolves over time with their reading interests, reading habits a

This one is all about packing your instructional toolkit one resource at a time starting with this FREE Resource Library.

Your readers must see how their thinking moves from literal understanding to reflective thinking that evolves into inferential understanding

Intentional planning to create a Literacy Engagement Chart can frontload future reading minilessons.